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I was searching for the etymology of Utahraptor ostrommaysorum and found the first half was pretty easy... Utah = people of the mountain, raptor = thief... but the second part was a little more complicated, with some effort I found out it referred to paleontologists John Ostrom and Chris Mays... But what does the surnames Ostrom and Mays mean? Anyone knows? (I am guessing Mays can be related to the month known as May, but, that aint enough for me, and Ostrom sounds Swedish like, "east stream", but I aint sure)