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Dinosaur named after British cartoonist

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Alan Gardner November 22, 2011 1 minute 1 comment

How about your name attached to a newly discovered dinosaur?

The pterosaur identified by Dr David Martill at the university’s school of earth and environmental studies, is named Cuspicephalus scarfi – after Gerald Scarfe, the political cartoonist who depicted Mrs Thatcher as a pointy-nosed ‘Torydactyl’.