As a kid I read a lot about dinosaurs and was fascinated by the story of the discovery of the iguanodon, which in the book I got from my parents, was a less complete version of the story told here. I would sometimes wonder how extraterrestrial xeno-archaeologists might view human remains and how they might be inclined to assemble the fossilized jumbles that they might find and what kind of permutations they might go through before finding enough remains to conclude that humans are/were bipedal. I think I fixated on iguanodon because it had a pair of thumb spikes, which makes it look like it's giving "two thumbs up" which is a gesture I use often.

Of course, I hadn't considered that any intelligent alien species that might find human remains would likely be a very highly advanced civilization, perhaps with capabilities of reconstruction far beyond those of the time I live in, but you know . . . kids.

I also happen to love neologisms and random word associations, so when it came time to create a new username, I let my brain take a walk and when it came back, "humanodon" was staring back at me from the username field.