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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2007-06-26 01:49 am

Paging the palaeontologists

Via [livejournal.com profile] theweaselking, Palaeos Vertebrates: Glossary Ta - Th:
Thagomizer: this started out as a Far Side joke, but has now more or less become a part of the serious anatomical literature. The thagomizer is the, otherwise difficult to describe, collection of spikes at the end of a stegosaurid's tail. It is named after the late Thag
Is that for real?

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