Ancient Lizard That Lived With The Dinosaurs Has Been Named After Obama
Pretty cool. Also, since Republican office holders all seem to deny evolution and we could not name any fossils after them even though they are fossils in their own right.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/12/ancient-lizard-that-lived-with-the-dinosaurs-has-been-named-after-obama/
Ancient Lizard That Lived With The Dinosaurs Has Been Named After Obama
Yale scientists have discovered an ancient, small, insect-eating lizard in the badlands of Montana and have named it Obamadon, after President Obama. The lizard, which is less than 30cm long and had ‘elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw’, existed 65 million years ago.
Researchers from Yale and Harvard discovered Obamadon, or Obamadon gracilis if you want to get scientific, by re-examining fossils across the country to try and figure out what happened to lizards and snakes when dinosaurs started dying off. The name Obamadon was actually given before the election results but if the election went a different way, well, Yale palaeontologist Nicholas Longrich says:‘I was seriously thinking, if the election had gone the other way, I would have yanked it,’ Longrich said. ‘It might have seemed like we were mocking it, naming a lizard that goes extinct after that, seemed kind of cruel.’ —> Continued