The asteroid that many scientists credit with wiping out the dinosaurs and decimating other lizard and snake species also caused the extinction of a newly-identified lizard: the Obamadon gracilis.
The ‘Obamadon’ was identified in recent research from Yale and Harvard scientists looking into the vast array of species that were affected by the catastrophic asteroid collision they believe struck the earth around 65.5 million years ago on the edge of the Yucatan Peninsula.
The research paper is titled “Mass Extinction of Lizards and Snakes at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary.”