u/sir_ornitholestes

Obviously, carcinization is cool but more famous than it should be, when there's a bunch of dumb meme builds that evolution has done more times than crab. What do you think is the most prominent?

Some contenders: Crab (carcinization) 5 times: brachyura, king crabs, porcelain crabs, sponge crabs, weird australian nonsense

Hopping mouse (jerboazation) 7 times: kangaroo rat, potoroo, hopping mouse, jumping mouse, gerboa, kultarr, springhare

Snake (ophidization) 14 times: I'm not gonna list all these but there are a LOT of independently snake-shaped reptiles

Reptiles with sails on their back (dimetrodontization) 10 times: I'm having trouble tracking down all of these but it happens so often I'm genuinely curious why a big back sail made of neural spines isn't present in stem-reptilians

Anything else I'm missing?

Today's (3256) "parataxites" instead of "prototaxites" seems like a repeat of 460's never-corrected "arcocanthosaurus" error.

Why is it that Randall can't seem to spell paleontology words specifically? Does he spell check his comics but ignores it if it's a word that the spell check doesn't know? Wild theories welcome

If you've never had it before, I strongly recommend Trini Style! As far as I can tell, they seem to only do street faires, and it's some of the best food I've had in this city