{"id":30047,"date":"2012-12-12T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=30047"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:20:02","slug":"president-obama-honoured-by-scientists-obamadon-was-named-the-newly-discovered-dinosaur-us-news-30047","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/president-obama-honoured-by-scientists-obamadon-was-named-the-newly-discovered-dinosaur-us-news-30047\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama honoured by scientists Obamadon was named the newly discovered dinosaur \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new prehistoric lizard species has been named Obamadon Gracilis after President Barack Obama.<\/h1>\n

The lizard was first discovered in eastern Montana in 1974 but only recently classified as a new species.<\/p>\n

Yale scientists combined the Latin “Obamadon” for “Obama’s teeth” and “gracilis” meaning slender to name the toothy lizard.<\/p>\n

“The lizard has these very tall, straight teeth and Obama has these tall, straight incisors and a great smile,” said Nick Longrich, a palaeontologist at the school in New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Mr Longrich decided to wait until after the US election to name the dinosaur.<\/p>\n

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“It would look like we were kicking him when he’s down if he lost and we named this extinct lizard after him.”<\/p>\n

Although, Mr Longrich admits, “Romneydon” and “Clintondon” were not suitable for the lizard.<\/p>\n

Whist Obama can boast to now having three animal species named after him, he is not the only politician with a feral twin.<\/p>\n

The extinct sloth species Megalonyxx jeffersonii was named after President Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n

Other celebrities whose names have made it into the animal kingdom include “Bob Marley” the crustacean and “Beyonce” the horse fly.<\/p>\n

The Obamadon was wiped out, with many other dinosaurs, when an asteroid hit the earth 65 million years ago.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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