... Wilkins turns green with envy.
There's a special sort of immortality for those who work in paleontology which clearly outweighs the total lack of jobs and remuneration: having a species named after you. My friend and accredited geologist and paleontologist has now had a trilobite named after him. Ladies and gentlemen, below the fold, Chris Nedin's tribble, Megapharanaspis nedini!
Pretty little thing, isn't it? Of course, nobody would ever name a fossil after a philosopher, would they? You need to find something with no definite shape, for a start. [Hint!]
Stumble It!
Comments
Let's see, something amorphous, pond slime? Green algal bloom?
Posted by: Brian English | April 28, 2008 8:48 PM
Nedin makes the big time, eh? Good on 'im!
About 15 years ago, he and Andrew Macrae helped me (over the net!) to figure out the identity of a trilobite fossil I had received, that was mislabelled.
Posted by: Eamon Knight | April 28, 2008 10:17 PM
But can Megapharanaspis nedini be trusted?
Posted by: Theo Bromine | April 28, 2008 11:03 PM
I've got a friend who had a parasitic wasp named after her.
Posted by: Bob O'H | April 29, 2008 1:17 AM
I thought you were your own one-man (one-ape?) subspecies Gorilla Australini Albini Wilkini or GAAW for short as in: "gaaw blimy, it's a white Aussie ape!"
Posted by: Thony C. | April 29, 2008 6:13 AM
Awwww...Ill put you on my list of people who want me to name stuff after them, if I ever find anything...If I ever get a phd scholarship and get to pretend Im a serious academic...
Posted by: Pubcat | April 30, 2008 12:52 AM
You aren't supposed to say that until after the course is finished...
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | April 30, 2008 1:05 AM