cumaeansibyl:camwyn:this is one of my favorite stories of all timethey could’ve gotten shirty about
cumaeansibyl:camwyn:this is one of my favorite stories of all timethey could’ve gotten shirty about the depiction of cavemen and dinosaurs co-existing (which Larson knew was wrong, but there were too many good jokes to be made) but instead the paleontologists all laughed and passed it around and then one of them was like “wait, what do we call that thing?”and they realized they didn’t have a name for it besides, like, “the spiky bit,” so what the shit, it’s a thagomizer nowSCIENCE -- source link
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