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- Along with connections of Prussian monarchy to contemporary palaeontology. bsky.app/profile/nata...
- You'd think "pterosaurs" & "kink-shaming" are two things that couldn't go hand-in-hand, and yet, a homoerotic scandal between two intellectual equals led to the discovery of the first pterosaur. Buckle in for some Crazy Rich Prussians & their unlikely connection to the discovery of pterosaurs 🧵
- Othmar Kühn (1892–1969), Austrian palaeontologist, achieved "considerable success even without a teaching qualification" despite being an active military member of the Nazi Party. He became a Professor of paleontology and a post-war Dean and Rector at the University of Vienna.
- Sources for: Osborn (opening Eugenics Congress in Science science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.54.1397.311) Haeckel (link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-020-00358-w) Agassiz (jstor.org/stable/2963000) Buckland (doi.org/10.17704/eshi.16.1.yl20183310h53372) Beche (doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-189-2022)
- Stopes (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72290-5_5) Cuvier (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17528631.2012.739916) Shaler (jstor.org/stable/622168) Huxley (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4366572/) Abel (doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2012.697899) Weigelt (doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2019.13) ... tbc
