Obamadon: Lizard Now Bears Barack Obama's Name

A recently discovered extinct lizard species have been named 'Obamadon', after the American President Barack Obama.

The 44th American President Barack Obama has earned himself another honor (after the American presidency and the Noble prize for peace). He now has a lizard species named after him i.e Obamadon.
The small insect eating lizard lived about 65 million years ago but was wiped out with the rest of the dinosaurs. It was discoverd in 1974 in Montana. The lizard was earlier classified as Leptochamops denticulatus but recent study showed that it was actually a new species.
It was not the president's dynamic personality that urged the researcher at the Yale University to give the lizard his name. It was rather his toothy smile.
The name given to the lizard is 'Obamadon Gracilis'. Where 'Obamadon' means Obama's teeth and Gracilis means slender.

"The lizard has these very tall, straight teeth and Obama has these tall, straight incisors and a great smile," said Nick Longrich, a paleontologist at the school in New Haven, Connecticut.

The researchers had to wait until the American elections to name the lizard.

"It would look like we were kicking him when he's down if he lost and we named this extinct lizard after him," Nick Longrich.

Toddler almost killed after his egg collection hatches into Eastern Brown Snakes

Kyle Cummings, a 3-year old toddler, was almost killed when his egg collection hatched into Eastern Brown snakes.

It all started about a few weeks ago, when Kyle Cummings came across with a clutch of nine eggs while playing in his family's 3 acre property near the city of Townsville, in Queensland state. Unaware of what the eggs actually carried, the young wildlife enthusiast brought the eggs home and kept them inside a box, leaving the box in the warmth of his bedroom closet.
It was not until Donna Sim, Kyle's mother, lost her soul in fright when she found the baby snakes writhing in her son's wardrobe. Seven of the nine eggs had hatched into deadly eastern browns.

"I was pretty shocked, particularly because I don't like snakes," Sim told the Townsville Bulletin newspaper.

 Fortunately, Kyle had closed the box tight enough so as to confine the Eastern Browns.
Reptile specialist Trish Prendergast, who is also the Townsville-based reptile coordinator of the volunteer group North Queensland Wildlife Care, was handed the container on Tuesday and released the snakes into the wild that night. Trish said that Kyle Cummings could have been killed if he had handled the eastern brown snakes - the world's most venomous species on land after Australia's inland taipan.

"If he'd opened the container he might not be here today." she said

Snakes kill 3-4 people each year in Australia, most of them as a result of bites from Eastern Brown snakes.

Australian Tycoon to turn Morgue into Hotel

The Australians have come up with an unusual idea to utilise a disused morgue, by turning it into a hotel.
The morgue is part of a mental asylum. It once housed psychiatric patients, but was abandoned a decade ago after the asylum was closed down.

The owner Hayden Pearce recently bought the 7 acre site. The Tasmanian tycoon and hotelier now plans to turn the unfortunate site into an accomodation.
According to Daily Mail, Pearce will use the 4 rooms of the morgue as an extension to his 22-room hotel nearby.
The previous owner wanted to turn the place into an ice cream parlor and child care center. But Pearce thinks that his unusual idea might intrigue visitors. He told ABC news, "We're hoping to attract the unusual"
If you're planning for a night at the 'Morgue', then don't expect fluffy beds and comfortable suites. Instead of luxurious bed rooms, the morgue-cum-hotel will keep the terrazo stone slabs for resting your weary heads. Pearce reportedly stated: "The idea is to give an experience in a morgue before it's too late."

Pull-out fridge and surgical instruments scattered around the rooms will add to the creepiness of the strange hotel. So, have guts before you take a step in!

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