He is one of the most if not the most famous frog of all time and now he has a species named after him. Scientists have found an undiscovered ancient amphibian species and have named it after Kermit the Frog from The Muppets. Scientists working with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History announced they had discovered a fossilized skull from a 270-million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a wide mouth and named it Kermitops.
“Using the name Kermit has significant implications for how we can bridge the science that is done by paleontologists in museums to the general public. Because this animal is a distant relative of today’s amphibians, and Kermit is a modern-day amphibian icon, it was the perfect name for it.” Calvin, a doctoral student at George Washington University and the lead author on the research paper
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