Sunday, July 11, 2010

Friend and commenter Mojo honored

I wish I could get a dinosaur named after me!

7 comments:

bruce said...

Got an infectious disease named after me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis

Paco said...

Also, according to Wiki, called Bang's disease, Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Maltese fever, Mediterranean fever, rock fever, or undulant fever.

Cool!

Yojimbo said...

There's a difference between Malta fever and Maltese fever? Maybe you get Maltese fever from drinking too much malt liquor or searching for that "Dingus" for too long,:)

richard mcenroe said...

Who do you think they named the Big Mac after?

richard mcenroe said...

I don't know about undulant fever,but I heard of a particularly lonely cowboy with ungulant fever once...

RebeccaH said...

Wait, what? You mean Pacosaurus Rex isn't a real dinosaur?

Wronwriiiiiight!!

Michael Lonie said...

Pacosaurus rex; I like the sound of that name.

Simon Conway-Morris, one of the paleontologists involved in the reexamination of the Burgess Shale fauna, named a very strange looking, small fossil animal from this Middle Cambrian rock formation Hallucigenia sparsa. He said (unofficially) that he used the name Hallucigenia because the fossil looked like something he saw on an acid trip.