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Ancient Swamp Creature Named After Mick Jagger

09/11/2014
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(Radio.com) Over his 50-plus-year career, Mick Jagger's lips have become icons in their own right - but now they have been immortalized in textbooks, kind of. Scientists have named a swamp creature that lived 19 million years ago in Africa after the Rolling Stones' frontman for his lips.

Jaggermeryx naida, which translates to "Jagger's water nymph," was a mix between a hippo and a long-legged pig, according to Phys.org. As for its facial similarity? "The animal probably had a highly innervated muzzle with mobile and tactile lips, thus the Jagger reference," said Duke University paleontologist and study co-author Gregg Gunnell.

"It may have used its sensitive snout to forage along river banks, scooping up plants with its lower teeth and large lips," co-author Ellen Miller added. The extinct animal's fossils were reportedly found scattered around catfish, turtles, waterbirds and crocodile poop at a remote site in the Egyptian desert. More details here.

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