The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name “thagomizer” in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.
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I love everything about this.
Why is he hitting the other dinosaur with his balls?
I don’t want no scrub.
A scrub is a dinosaur that can get no love from me.
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Science memes you mean so much to me
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