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A thagomizer is the distinctive arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs. [1]

24 relations: Anatomy, Calvin and Hobbes, Caveman, Comics, Confessional, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Dinosaur National Monument, Gary Larson, Gregory S. Paul, Hominidae, Human evolution, Ornithischia, Osteomyelitis, Planet Dinosaur, Quark, Robert T. Bakker, Smithsonian Institution, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Stegosauria, Stegosauridae, Strigiphilus garylarsoni, The Far Side, The Prehistory of The Far Side, Timeline of stegosaur research.

Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

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Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995.

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Caveman

A caveman is a stock character representative of primitive man in the Paleolithic.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Confessional

A confessional is a box, cabinet, or stall in which the priest in some Christian churches sits to hear the confessions of penitents.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.

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Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.

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Gary Larson

Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist.

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Gregory S. Paul

Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an American freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology, and more recently has examined sociology and theology.

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Hominidae

The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.

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Human evolution

Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.

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Ornithischia

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure similar to that of birds.

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Osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis (OM) is an infection of bone.

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Planet Dinosaur

Planet Dinosaur, is a six-part documentary television series created by Nigel Paterson and Phil Dobree, produced by the BBC, and narrated by John Hurt, first aired in the United Kingdom in 2011, produced by VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures.

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Quark

A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

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Robert T. Bakker

Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded).

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) was founded in the US in 1940 for people with an interest in vertebrate paleontology; by 2014 it had about 2,000 members internationally, and holds annual meetings, mostly but not all in North America.

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Stegosauria

Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

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Stegosauridae

Stegosauridae is a clade of thyreophoran dinosaurs (armoured dinosaurs) within the suborder Stegosauria.

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Strigiphilus garylarsoni

Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a species of chewing louse found only on owls.

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The Far Side

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).

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The Prehistory of The Far Side

The Prehistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit is a book chronicling the origin and evolution of The Far Side (including cartoonist Gary Larson's first strip, Nature's Way), giving inside information about the cartooning process and featuring a gallery of Larson's favorite Far Side cartoons from the 1980s.

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Timeline of stegosaur research

This timeline of stegosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the stegosaurs, the iconic plate-backed, spike-tailed herbivorous eurypod dinosaurs that predominated during the Jurassic period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

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