User blog comment:Supahbadmarine/New Tyranids/@comment-2253300-20100901163816/@comment-1257337-20100902141513

Tyranids are based or reptiles. Dinosaurs actually. They kind of screwed it up though. So they went 'fuck it, they're bugs'

They even attempted to hint it. Tyran-ids. Tyran-nosaurs.