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Line 7: The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist [[Gary Larson]] invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip ''[[The Far Side]]'', and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.[[File:Thagomizer on tail of Stegosaurus at AMNH in NYC.png\|thumb\|right\|A thagomizer on the tail of a Stegosaurus fossil]] ~~Paleontologists actually don't call it this though, as they had a perfectly good name for the spikes on the tail. They were called " spikes on the tail"~~ ==Etymology==

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