Comment on stegosaurus
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 6 months agoI was always told manufacturing and construction breed the meanest coworkers.
Then I learned about decades of journalistic wars between paleontologist that boil down to "I’m right, they’re wrong, therefore I present we name this species after my opponent. The ‘Doodoostupidheadasaurus’. It has a never-before-seen giant penis bone, which I shall call the “Rightusbiggusdickusflagellum’.”
All because someone didn’t properly attribute two words back in grad school.
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re also the only discipline I’m aware of that frequently sabotaged each other’s research using TNT like Looney Tunes characters
F04118F@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Sauce?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
You’re in for a treat if you haven’t heard about the Bone Wars until now!
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I played up the dynamite aspect a bit there, but The Bone Wars were very real, very not a porn, and reads more like a Cohen Brothers spec script than anything that, you know, actually happened
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 months ago
well, they’re porn now. but they were a real non porn thing for a while first.