Sir Mick Jagger has dinosaur named after him

Mick Jagger has had a dinosaur named after him because the extinct swamp dwelling creature had huge lips like those of the Rolling Stones rocker. PHOTO| BANG SHOWBIZ

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  • A group of scientists that discovered a group of fossils belonging to an extinct swamp-dwelling creature that lived over 19 million years ago have named it Jaggermeryz naida, which translates to Jagger's water nymph, because it also had huge lips like those of the famous Rolling Stones rocker.

Mick Jagger has had a dinosaur named after him because the extinct swamp-dwelling creature had huge lips like those of the Rolling Stones rocker.
A group of scientists that discovered a group of fossils belonging to an extinct swamp-dwelling creature that lived over 19 million years ago have named it Jaggermeryz naida, which translates to Jagger's water nymph, because it also had huge lips like those of the famous Rolling Stones rocker.

Anthropologist Dr. Ellen Miller told Duke TODAY: "Some colleagues suggested naming it after Angelina Jolie, because she also has famous lips. But for me it had to be Mick. I was a huge Rolling Stones fan in my day."