Scientists keep naming discoveries after Obama

While the names were chosen for both men’s passion for science, Droser told The Washington Post, Obamus coronatus first reminded researchers of Obama because it resembles an ear — one of the former president’s distinctive traits. The immobile, soft-bodied creature was between 0.5 and 2 centimeters across and embedded to a mosslike carpet on the seabed.

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