We frequently leaf through the book, enjoying the pictures and trying to pronounce the exotic names. I still plan to read the book but haven't sat down to it yet.
Yesterday, we were reading about the stegosaurus and read a matter of fact account of how the "thagomizer of the stegosaurus provided a powerful defence". The word sounded strangely familiar; where had I seen it before? So, I did read the page and found that Thagomizer is now the proper scientific term for the spikes on the end of a stegosaur's tail and came from a Far Side cartoon (image from wikipedia).
That Gary Larson was the coolest guy around.John Carlson at Prairie Ice agrees.
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That's pretty funny. I believe Larson also had an insect named after him.
Yes, there is an insect named after him. I have just about all the books that came out while he was working -but they're all in Canada.
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