matgb: (Cool)
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?

[identity profile] davegodfrey.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you never been introduced to Molecules with Silly Names? (http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm) Clever Gene Names? (http://tinman.nikunnakki.info/) or Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature? (http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html)

Still I'm glad you know about the awesomeness of Palaeos.