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Amnesic stegosaurus
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It's #drawadinosaurday2024 - here are our #NatureTots creating a stegosaurus.
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This weeks #Lego #Dinosaur of the week will be #Stegosaurus
Each build come with a fact sheet, and parts list.
#Dinosauroftheweek
#Reptileoftheweek
#Qucikbuild
#LegoMOC
#MOCMondayWant to build this little critter? Well here's the instructions - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F13VWLrS5-F22zWJ7AGck536CdKYBV2Z?usp=sharing
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Dear @count_01 ,
Your nom de Mastodon inspired me to visit the search engines and thence to Wikipedia where today I learned:"The term thagomizer was coined by [cartoonist] Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".[1]
The term was picked up initially by Kenneth Carpenter, then a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who used the term when describing a fossil at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in 1993.[2] Thagomizer has since been adopted as an anatomical term[3] and is used by the Smithsonian Institution,[2][4] the Dinosaur National Monument,[2] the book The Complete Dinosaur[5] and the BBC documentary series Planet Dinosaur.[6] The term has also appeared in some scientific papers describing stegosaurs and related dinosaurs.[7][8][9][10][11]"
Among a long list of boyhood dreams that never came to fruition was my desire to grow up to be a paleontologist.
As I enter my dotage it consoles me enormously to know that Gary Larson, whose sense of humor I revere, was responsible for giving some dinosaur tailbones an (informal) scientific name based on one of his cartoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
#Thagomizer #GaryLarson #Cavemen #Cartoons
