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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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