Who gets naming rights in these cases? If I find a fossil, but some other scientist classifies it, do I still get rights to name it? Is there a legal framework around this, or is it just whoever has the biggest ego wins?
Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'
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#12Article says: Justin Reynolds and his daughter Ruby. I'm sure Dad is proud and all and doesn't mind being left out of the headline, but it does make it a bit click-bait-y
Frankly, I understand him and I bet many (if not most) dads would do the same.
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#13My family lives down near Blue Anchor and we visit the beaches there most years. The cliffs are absolutely packed with fossils. My kids love it.
Re: Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'
#14Who gets naming rights in these cases? If I find a fossil, but some other scientist classifies it, do I still get rights to name it? Is there a legal framework around this, or is it just whoever has the biggest ego wins?
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#15Article says: Justin Reynolds and his daughter Ruby. I'm sure Dad is proud and all and doesn't mind being left out of the headline, but it does make it a bit click-bait-y
Frankly, I understand him and I bet many (if not most) dads would do the same.
College application essay to study paleontology writes itself
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#16I wonder how many times people have unknowingly come across fossils of unknown species and use them as paper weights, book-ends, or skipping stones.
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#17Who gets naming rights in these cases? If I find a fossil, but some other scientist classifies it, do I still get rights to name it? Is there a legal framework around this, or is it just whoever has the biggest ego wins?
The name is usually assigned in a publication, but there is a long and wonderful tradition of involving laypeople in the naming, and/or naming it after them.
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#18I hope this puts the claims that the "blue whale is the largest animal to ever live" to rest. We simply do not know.