Fry: [serving pizza with anchovies] Okay my friends, get ready for the most delicious extinct animal you've ever tasted.
Amy: I don't know, I've had cow.
Amy: I don't know, I've had cow.
— Futurama
"It says here that scientists are planning to bring back long-extinct creatures through genetic engineering. Isn't that dangerous?"
"Ha! What could possibly go wrong? What exactly is a Shoggoth anyway?"
"Ha! What could possibly go wrong? What exactly is a Shoggoth anyway?"
Sarkoff: Beautiful, aren't they. Earth insects of the order Lepidoptera.
Blake: Butterflies.
Sarkoff: Ah, so you're an historian, are you?
Blake: No, but I did study some natural history.
Sarkoff: It's interesting, isn't it, that when that term "natural history" was originated, it referred to the study of living things. It was much later that it came to mean the study of things long since past and dead. History in its more conventional sense.
Blake: Butterflies.
Sarkoff: Ah, so you're an historian, are you?
Blake: No, but I did study some natural history.
Sarkoff: It's interesting, isn't it, that when that term "natural history" was originated, it referred to the study of living things. It was much later that it came to mean the study of things long since past and dead. History in its more conventional sense.
— Blake's 7, "Bounty"
