(CNN) A prehistoric crocodile once roamed the shallow seas of the Middle Jurassic period, crushing prey with its massive jaw and blunt teeth. A British heavy metal icon once roamed the world's stages, piercing his audience's eardrums with his distorted Rickenbacker bass. Thanks to a newly published scientific discovery, the duo is now bound by a name. Lemmysuchus obtusidens: "Absolute monster' Lemmysuchus obtusidens was unveiled in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society earlier this week, after a team of international scientists led by University of Edinburgh paleontologist Michela Johnson found that a prehistoric teleosaur specimen at London's Natural History Museum (NHM) had been misidentified for more than 100 years.A team of scientists with a penchant for hard rock wanted to pay homage to an icon"He was this big old nasty thing": the prehistoric crocodile, that is.
"Motörhead are one of my favorite bands and since _ died I have been thinking, 'How I can I get something named after Lemmy?'. "Motörhead are one of my favorite bands and since Lemmy died I have been thinking, 'How I can I get something named after _?'. _ was a teleosaur, a group of extinct marine crocodiles who lived around 164 million years ago, according to a NHM press release. _ isn't the first musician to have a fossil named after him.