Barack Obama, Prehistoric Lizard King
No, not the T. Rex or Triceratops in the background, and not the Palaeosaniwa chasing after the baby Edmontosauruses. The aqua critter, lower left:
The small, insect-eating lizard was discovered in the badlands of northeastern Montana — its fossil preserved in an area called the Hell Creek formation. Less than a foot long, it had elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw. Some 65 million years ago, it went extinct. And now, it is named for the 44th president of the United States: Obamadon gracilis.
That’ll lock up the critical eight-year-old boy demographic. And really, it beats a fucking puny fish.
Yale scientists name Obamadon, a slender-jawed lizard, after the President [Boston.com, via TPM]
Born in Kenya?
So at the Creation Museum where does this lizard fall in the one true time scale? Did it live before or after Noah and the flood? Did John the Baptist keep one as a pet?
I love that picture but there does appear to be a slight oversight in the caption. The writer goes to great lengths to identify each of the creatures but completely overlooks the meteorite/asteroid streaking to Earth in the background moments before vaporizing all these doomed animals.
@Dave H: I can help with the asteroid.
It’s name is Republicanus Doucheanus (that’s right, a double anus).
@Dave H: Brand-new theory: Prehistoric Mega Volcano!
I’m too lazy to find a link, but it was in the news the past couple of days. Hasn’t yet unseated Prehistoric Killer Asteroid.
@nojo: Personally I’m partial to the theory from “Reign of Fire” that it was actually dragons causing all the prehistoric ash as they exterminated the dinosaurs.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: No, but my government was.
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Were you kidnapped?
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: I’ve spent the past five weeks looking like Astronaut Dave going through the…
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! NOJO - HOW COME WE'RE NOT COVERING KRASNOV?
NOJO • The Reckoning Four years later: Uhhh, how’d that work out?
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread @nojo: yeah. I had a feeling you’d say that.
NOJO • Hanging by a Thread @JNOV: Haven’t touched a thing — checked it the other day, worked from here. But that’s my…
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread Oh! My edits worked! Praise nojo!
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread Glad you’re feeling sunny. I have my moments which are then squashed by some shitheads’…
NOJO • Hanging by a Thread @nojo: The Long View: 1972: Nixon 61% 1984: Reagan 59% 2004: Bush 51% 2024: Trump 50%…