Re: [dinosaur] Triceratops skull with skin + Zuul + sabertooths + more

[Thomas Richard Holtz <tholtz@umd.edu>]

Indeed!!

More people, even professional paleos, need to read the boring chapters in the Treatise of Invertebrate PaleontologyÂ(or other comparable sources.)

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:06 AM David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

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To name, or not to name, that is the question

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https://raftingmonkey.com/2018/12/11/to-name-or-not-to-name-that-is-the-question/

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I had no idea there were people who believed cf. meant "compares favorably". So, public service announcement: of course it's not English! It's not only used in English â it's older than the use of English in scientific writing! It means confer, Latin for "compare" (imperative).

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