A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Hyalinobatrachium dianae
Which is bunk. There's, like, a spider species named sonicus hedgehogidae or some shit like that, for the lulz, but heaven forbid we name this guy after his lookalike.
Yeah yeah, rules and conventions, blah blah blah. Some rules need to be broken.
I'm pretty sure that when it comes to newly discovered species the person that discovers it gets to name it which is why we have stuff like sonicus and the Beyonce fly and the Obama spider and stuff like that.
And the Hitler beetle.
[edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.
Well that was probably a mask off moment holy shit lol
At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron
So is that thing going to start suing palaeontologists that discover similar species?
There is also minos phrime, a bacteriophage named after, well , minos prime, the former hardest boss in ultrakill
This was 9 years ago, though. What's the statute of limitations on good news?
None. Go nuts.
"Good news, everyone! The Allies won the war and fascism has been defeated!"
Let's gooooo!
If only
Never to return!
My brain: 9 years ago? So 2007 right?
No that's 2015 :'(
the platonic ideal doesn't exi-
Kermit de Frog
Kermi Tree Frog
I don't know, I think I've seen a frog it might look like more than Kermit...
The person who found him marked the event by saying, "Hi ho! Kermit the Frog here"
I always hated his pupils.