What do you call this thing?

The "business end" of a Stegosaur's tail has a name. Do you know what it is?


Apparently, it's called a Thagomizer.

Image source: Wikipedia (Image:Stego-marsh-1896-US_geological_survey.jpg).

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Authored by: Dave on Saturday, December 30 2006 @ 05:14 PM PST What do you call this thing?
Worth a note: the first (but not last) species named in the honor of Gary Larson was a variety of sucking louse. He was supposedly rather proud of that.

Paleontologists are unfortunately prone to the adoption of silly terminology whenever given the opportunity (e.g., 'Elvis' taxa, species or genera which resemble a different taxon which has already gone extinct - which is to say, impersonators). Which reminds me to propose 'thingamajig', 'whatchamacallit', and 'doohickey' first chance I get!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 17 2007 @ 08:15 PM PST What do you call this thing?
One of my favorite Far Side Cartoons... caveman presenter addressing an audience with the slide of the Stegosaurus up. Caveman says, "This end is called the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons."

Did Paleontologists adopt thagomizer as a real term?
Authored by: Windell on Wednesday, January 17 2007 @ 08:22 PM PST What do you call this thing?
Apparently so!
(See the wikipedia article linked above for more detail.)

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