A Nine-Year-Old Girl Got a New Ancient Flying Reptile Species Named After Her Because She Discovered It

When Daisy Morris was four years old, she found fossilized bones of a previously undiscovered species of the flying reptile beast pterosaur. Now, at nine years young, scientists have decided to name the reptile, which lived during the same time period as dinosaurs, after Daisy. It’s called Vectidraco daisymorrisae. How cute. More »

Scientists Have Discovered An Ancient Lizard That Lived with the Dinosaurs and Named It Obamadon 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 a foot long and had “elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw”, existed 65 million years ago. More »