#Thagomizer

2025-07-03

" #Thagomizer has since been adopted as an informal anatomical term and is used by the #SmithsonianInstitution , the #DinosaurNationalMonument, the book #TheCompleteDinosaur and the BBC documentary series #PlanetDinosaur."

2025-07-03

#Etymology A cartoon of a group of cavemen. One points at a diagram of a dinosaur's tail with four spikes. The caption reads, "Now, this end is called the thagomizer...after the late #ThagSimmons." "The term #thagomizer was coined by #GaryLarson in jest. "

2025-07-03

It is time for the #thagomizer to rise! (then drop suddenly as needed)

Andrew J. Steinmetzajsteinmetz.com@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-08

Behold! The punctured vertebrae #Dinosaur #Fossil of an #Allosaurus caused by the #Thagomizer of a #Stegosaurus. The spikes (seen to illustrate fit) were used for defense. The thagomized allosaurus survived as evidenced by healed bone. #Science #PaleoSky 🧪 🦕 See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Allosaurus anterior caudal with a partially healed wound congruent with what a Stegosaurus tail-spike puncture would be expected to cause. Centimeter ruler for scale.
2024-07-24

Sometimes I mourn for Thag, of #Thagomizer fame. poor fellow.

2023-08-16

@franciscawrites
This one. Not only is it funny, paleontologists have adopted 'Thagomizer' as a term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomiz

#Thagomizer

A Gary Larson Far side cartoon. A lecture attended by stereotypical cavemen are looking at a screen showing the rear end of a stegosaurus, which has four large spikes sticking up on the tail. The lecturer, dressed in a leopard skin, is pointing to the spikes. The
Bishop Joey (he/him)Bishopjoey@writing.exchange
2023-02-27

Okay, y'all are probably familiar with the #Thagomizer (if not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomiz). In last night's #dream, I was in the same lecture, except it went on - once the thagomizer was removed, you got a long metal fork called Thag's Choice Stick which enabled us to change the environment of the neighbouring region - warm the lakes, slow the rivers, things like that. I or someone else in the dream used it and damaged a major ecosystem. And then switched it back.
My head is weird.

Zorro Notorious MEB 😡AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club
2023-02-26

@stevesilberman It was a sad day in cubicle farms everywhere when Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons were replaced with "Dilbert" on the cubicle walls. #Thagomizer #GaryLarson

2023-01-16

I've now uploaded to thingiverse the design files and basic instructions to create your own version of this bot:

thingiverse.com/thing:5792280

#combatrobotics #Battlebots #makers #creativecommons #thingiverse #thagomizer #cad #3dprinting #engineering #hobbies #maker

2023-01-07

@SeriousWizard Even though the #stegosaurus was famous for its #thagomizer tail. 👀

Tony WellsTonyJWells
2022-12-17

The Stegosaurus is the bestosaurus as it has backplates, and a thagomizer on the tail.

Two Ikea Jättelik Stegosaurus soft toys showing the spiked tail also known as a thagomizer l.
Surlybensurlyben
2020-04-04

94. Stegosaurus. Just having a moment where I'm noticing the quarantine and all the ink is running into my colors. Dinosaurs for the next few days, I think.

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