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[–] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cue the downright vicious paleontology blood-feud between the two camps of thought on whether they were tenors or sopranos

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I 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 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

You’re in for a treat if you haven’t heard about the Bone Wars until now!

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 year ago

well, they're porn now. but they were a real non porn thing for a while first.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite a lot of modern dinosaurs sing so why not

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, some can even talk like humans!

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] manucode@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, they only knew only one song. After singing "7 AM, waking up in the morning, Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs, Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal, …" every day over and over again, they eventually collectively committed suicide.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Woke up, fell out of bed Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup And looking up, I noticed I was late...

[–] lath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They probably sounded like geese, but on a lower octave.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can I just be honest and say Steggos are my favorite?

They probably sing better than I do, too

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Don't you know that horses love stegosauruses?

https://youtu.be/7MMxqntYVyw?si=9qCTO75-eE7IFS52

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If it was spinosaurus we would have lost half of our world's paleontologists.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My headcanon is that they sounded like this: https://youtu.be/sEymyO5Abp4?si=u_ELKirykw60E6lF