Tales Of The Walking Dead Gives Zombies A New Scientific Name
The new The Walking Dead spinoff series, Tales of the Walking Dead, has retconned many different things that fans of the franchise thought they knew about the world that's been around for over a decade. In the latest episode of Tales of the Walking Dead, the zombies that have all sorts of nicknames through the long run finally have a more scientific title.
The newest episode of The Walking Dead anthology spinoff series stars Anthony Edwards as a scientist who has given the «Walkers» their new moniker. He dubs them Homo Mortuus and believes that the dead who have returned to a form of life are actually another step of evolution and they are now the perfect apex predators.
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In Sunday's episode of Tales of the Walking Dead titled «Amy/Dr. Everett,» Edwards plays one of the titular characters who has spent years tracking the «migration patterns» of the Homo Mortuus while also spending his time tracking how they behave. Over the time that he's been doing the study, he's come to really respect the zombies for what they are, especially because they don't hurt each other and only kill for food. He derived the new name for the Walkers thanks to «Homo» being the Latin word for human and «Mortuus» being derived from the Latin from dead.
As part of Dr. Everett's research, he has actually tagged three of the Homo Mortuus and dubbed them «Specimen Sunflower,» «Specimen Gamma,» and «Specimen 21.» The researcher actually tagged these specimens with transmitter collars and noticed that these particular zombies all have different traits that helped him learn more. The research takes place in a particular piece of land that was apparently sectioned off by man-made craters, which means that
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