It seems like the President of the USA got a reptile named after him. No no no its not a snake (Like some might think) I do not know if it is compliment naming someone after a extinct snake like lizard but their it is.
Obamadon is an extinct genus of polyglyphanodontian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Fossils have been found in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana and the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Researchers describe it as being distinguished by its "tall, slender teeth with large central cusps separated from small accessory cusps by lingual grooves."[1] The type species was named Obamadon gracilis after United States president Barack Obama, "in reference to the tall, straight teeth, and the manner in which Mr. Obama has acted as a role model of good oral hygiene for the world." [2] According to Nicholas R. Longrich of Yale University, the creature "was probably a foot long, [and] with these tall, slender teeth it used to eat insects and plant matter."[3]
The lizard was identified as part of a search of museum collections to find snake and lizard species that had lived immediately prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, in which the dinosaurs (with the exception of birds) died out.[4] Its identification was published by Longrich, Bhullar and Gauthier in a paper titled "Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary", published on December 10, 2012 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[2] The scientists found that lizards and snakes had been more badly hit by the mass extinction than previously thought, with 83 percent of species – including Obamadon – dying out. All present-day species of lizards are descended from members of the surviving 17 percent.[4]
At least it is more official than getting a star named after you. And better than getting an newly discovered extant species being named after you as most of those are insects or amphibians not exactly an image a politician of any sort wants to be associated with.
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Maybe they were hoping to get the Nobel Peace Prize for Absolutely Nothing that they give out nowadays.
Nah, I bet they just wanted to troll people into to acting inexplicably partisan in threads about the naming of a species of extinct lizard all across the internet.
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Nah, I bet they just wanted to troll people into to acting inexplicably partisan in threads about the naming of a species of extinct lizard all across the internet.
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The creature looks like a mini version of that dinosaur that spit acid in the fat guy's (Newman from Seinfeld) face near the end of Jurassic part. It was a picture of some "very closely related" reptile.
Even though I'm not a taxonomist, this is nothing new. Look at the genus Agathidium; you'll find species named after Bush Jr., Cheney, Rumsfeld, and even Darth Vader!
This reminds me of when they named a dinosaur after Hogwarts. I think is was called the Dracosaurus Hogwartsia or something like that. (The Draco part was just Latin, not naming it after Malfoy.) So there is precedant for unusual names for extinct stuff. Personally I think it would be really cool to have a dinosaur or other creature named after you. Maybe I should go into politics...
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There's a species of parasite named Gary Larson, Strigiphylus Garylarsoni. It feeds exclusively off of owls and is mentioned in the Prehistory of the Far Side.
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*snort* Yeah, right. Teeth. Sure. Not at all because some taxonomist is trying to make a cutesy political statement. Not. At. All.
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I mean that's the only real reason. Who the heck finds some crusty old lizard bones and says, "hey, let's name it after the president!"
The world really needs more people digging up crusty old reptiles. That'l solve our problems.
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Though I'll put it in a small font.
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But the prize has cash value!
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What a fitting tribute?
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