Although it became extinct after the same event that wiped out the dinosaurs, scientists have recently identified an insect-eating lizard, naming it after our present-day Commander-in-Chief. Meet “Obamadon,” scientifically known as Obamadon gracilis.
Discovered by researchers at Yale and Harvard University, Obamadon was part of a branch of lizards called Polyglyphanodontia, which was one of the lizard groups that disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous. In fact, according to Yale’s press release, close to 83 percent of all snake and lizard species, especially those larger than one pound, were killed during the mass extinction 65.5 million years ago.
The smaller blue-grey lizard watching the action in this artist’s rendering is Obamadon. (Image: Carl Buell via Yale)
“It is a small polyglyphanodontian distinguished by tall, slender teeth with large central cusps separated from small accessory cusps by lingual grooves,” the scientists wrote of Obamadon, which according to Yale’s press release was researched almost entirely from just two jaw bones. It is estimated the lizard was less than a foot long.
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If you want to get a glimpse of what life will be like under Obamacare, just look to the UK, where government-run health care continues to produce ludicrous stories like this – a pensioner who had visited the same doctor’s practice for 30 years was told to find a new GP because of concerns over the “carbon footprint” of her 2 mile round trip.
This parody may soon be illegal.