Paging the palaeontologists

[matgb]

Via 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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[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

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.

[matgb]

I had not, in fact, seen any of those; BA, remember? I blame the grammar school system.

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