For Siderea: Typo of the Week

[alexxkay]

"Therapists did fairly well in the Permian despite looking like something God created immediately after a two week bathtub gin and methamphetamine bender but then tragedy struck and the archosaurs enjoyed 160 million years of dominance"

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Comments

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

It's easy to remember how to spell, just break it into two words, The Ropods...

[metageek.livejournal.com]

No, it's not "therapod"--that's a kind of dinosaur. It's "therapsid", a type of warm-blooded reptile ancestral to dinosaurs and mammals.

[siderea]

Thank you for explaining this to me. I haven't been keeping up with my paleontology and had no idea. Now I have a new favorite mascot, yay!

[metageek.livejournal.com]

And you can explain it as ancestor worship.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Oh! I spent all day trying to figure out what the Permian typo was supposed to be...