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TV series[edit]

SOMEONE must be able to write about the children's TV series with his friend Flower? My memory is far too hazy.

Someone should definitely write about that, as it seems to be an important, and widely-known pop culture referencer. Alas, being an American, I never saw that show, so I am not that someone.

I never heard of it before, Google gave me http://www.toonhound.com/moschops.htm in seconds. There's also moschops material on Youtube. Personally I believe that this very simple stop motion animation is far too insignificant to put in a main article of a serious encyclopedia. After all most prehistoric creatures play roles in stuff like Flintstones, Dinosaurs, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, science fiction and so on.Maggy Rond (talk) 10:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mention the name Moschops in the UK and more people will think of the TV show than will think of the actual dinosaur. If it wasn't for the animation I wouldn't know what a moschops was. The Velociraptor article has a large section on how Jurassic Park made it well-known in popular culture, this article should at least acknowledge the show with a sentence or two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.18.89.74 (talk) 18:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i remember mosschops well - particularly the theme tune - this is a glaring hole in wikipedia's information. i hope someone rectifies this for all our sakes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.36.3.130 (talk) 12:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Meaning of the name[edit]

There seems to be some debate about what the name means, with edits toggling it back and forth between "calf's eye" and "silly face." I have it on the authority of Apokryltaros (AKA "Mr. Fink") that "silly face" is the meaning given in David Norman's Prehistoric Life: The Rise of the Vertebrates. This notwithstanding, and despite the indisputable fact that the moschops 'did have a very silly face indeed, I don't see how the Greek roots can be used to mean that. It is true that ὤψ can mean "face" as well as "eye", but μόσχος, in classical Greek, means "calf" (the only other meaning I can find is "twig", and much later "musk", but not "silly"). Now, it is not always immediately obvious, even if you know Latin and Greek, what exactly biologists intend a binomial name to mean, so I can't speak with absolute authority here. But doesn't "silly face" seem like an implausible name for a fossil that's been known so long? Given that it is so unusual, and that it doesn't seem to match the Greek, I don't think we should give that as the gloss on this page, without more research to back it up (and, imho, ideally a discussion of the Greek as well). --Iustinus 18:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moschops was an extinct genus?[edit]

English is not my native tongue but this first line of the article sounds very funny to me. Can someone please rewrite it? Please feel free to remove this comment once you've rephrased that. Maggy Rond (talk) 10:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be best to say it was a genus, which became extinct x number of million years ago. Does anyone know when it became extinct? Lkjhgfdsa 0 (talk) 08:10, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it became extinct about 260 million years ago, in the late Permian era. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.140.21 (talk) 13:54, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In popular culture[edit]

Moschops was also featured heavily in the Carnivores series but it is not on the pop culture section of the page so I am adding it here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.140.21 (talk) 13:58, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When it lived[edit]

The article claims Moschops lived 255 million years ago during the Middle Permian. 255 million years ago was the Late Permian, darn near the end of the period, not the Middle Permian. I don't know which is incorrect, but one of them is. Troodon311 (talk) 14:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Machop??[edit]

I'm pretty sure that the Pokémon Machop has, in fact, nothing to do with Moschops, and that its name comes from "macho" and "chop", since its evolutions have names ending with "choke" and "champ". The connection between the two seems dubious at best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.21.187.112 (talk) 15:55, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]