... 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!]
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Let's see, something amorphous, pond slime? Green algal bloom?
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.
But can Megapharanaspis nedini be trusted?
I've got a friend who had a parasitic wasp named after her.
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!"
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...
You aren't supposed to say that until after the course is finished...