14. There's A Dinosaur Named After Godzilla
It is common knowledge that Godzilla is a dinosaur mutated by radioactive bomb testing. Later movies would even reveal his original pre-mutation species, the fictional and appropriately named Godzillasaurus. What you might not know is that there actually is a real dinosaur named Gojirasaurus. It was discovered in 1997 by Kenneth Carpenter, who specifically named the newly discovered species after Godzilla. Its name is quite fitting, as it was one of the largest carnivores of the Triassic Period.