"Huh, look at that", or, "I never knew Chrono Trigger had any basis in 'science'."

[tacticslion]

(WARNING: "science" is used kind of very extremely loosely in the title!)
So... "Dinosauroids." Who knew?

I was never too interested in paleontology or speculative evolutionary models, so this went completely off my radar.

However, in reading a dead webcomic recently (called "Dawn of Time", here's the first page, if you'd prefer), the author linked to that article, and all I could think of was "hey, look, the Reptites from CT!"

I mean, seriously, those look exactly like the reptites in Chrono Trigger (at least as much as humans look like humans).

So that got me thinking. What other 'scientific' (or rather pseudo-scientific, I guess, considering this is all speculation, little better than guessing with no way to actually test the hypothesis) elements found their way into Chrono Trigger? You guys know any? I mean, I knew CT was well thought-out, I just never knew they actually did any sort of 'research' for it, nor ever presumed that it had any basis in scientific (or even quasi-or-pseudo-scientific) thought.* (Lightning is the lizard-types' weakness? Really? Really? I mean, I love you guys, but it's not, you know, ice for the presumptively cold blooded creatures?)

Anyway, though it's kind of fan-nerdy, you guys know of anything else like this? Places where CT got inspiration of some kind from publicized research or similar things? Any actual science (as unlikely as that is)? Any actual religions for that matter? Etc!