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[theweaselking]

torrain has quite an amusing discussion on the taxonomy of the common House Dragon.

in the face of the certainty that dragons are related to cats and the fact that the death of a mother dragon results in either premature birth (hatching) or the death of the embryos in the eggs, the cryptotaxonomists threw their hands in the air, assumed some as-yet undetectable connection between the mother's body and the eggs which could serve in the loose definition of bearing live young, and all went off to go get drunk.

also,

the tragic dearth of knowledge regarding the great dragons only serves to fuel the ongoing debate about whether or not they're a different species or only a very very old house dragon, not to mention the question of whether or not a dragon should change taxonomic classification as it ages (because quite frankly, no-one takes you seriously if you insist on referring to a hypothetical something the size of a small mountain range by the same terms that you'd use for a fairly rare household pest).

ursulav, I thought you'd particularly like this one.

All interested observers are encouraged to comment, expand, and expound. Think of it as a perverse variant on the WikiScholars game.

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[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Neat!