Naming Fossils

[JuniperEccles]

On the "Wild West" programme last night Hugh F-W was talking to a chap who has been digging up and cleaning fossils of prehistoric critturs since he were a lad and was telling Hugh their names. If they are millions of years old how can anyone know what they were called?

[Guilbert53]

Maybe it was on their gravestones !

[Tilly2]

...or their birth certificates.:-)

[JuniperEccles]

Actually, Guilbert 53, because they're dead I suppose you can call them anything you like 'cos they can't hear you!

[Tilly2]

You should have put this in Jokes, Juniper.

[JuniperEccles]

The thing is I was deadly serious when I posted it !!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I've had a good laugh.

[bookbinder]

https://ukfossils.co.uk/2014/08/07/the-basics-of-classification/

[JuniperEccles]

Many thanks, Bookbinder. A serious answer!!!

[-Talbot-]

AO...

[bookbinder]

You're welcome, JuniperEccles. I suppose that, when those critturs were roaming around, the locals gave them uncomplimentary names, such as 'that thing from the river; him what took your uncle', rather than something more refined.