This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. I've walked for miles.Ĭopyright © 2014 NPR. All I want is for you to make love to me. My back is broad, but my hands are hurting. THE ROLLING STONES: (Singing) I'll never be your beast of burden. It was also used for an extinct arthropod.ĬORNISH: So while Mick Jagger will never be a beast of burden, you could always name one after him. But this isn't the first time a newly discovered species has been given his name. SIEGEL: Gregg Gunnell says, he's not sure if Jagger knows about the animal being named for him. So we thought about Mick instead, and we agreed that the Jagger was probably most appropriate for this. GUNNELL: And I thought, well, she might be really upset by this. Someone suggested calling it Angelina Jolie. And so we started thinking, well, this animal must of had a very sort of mobile, tactile set of lips and tongue.ĬORNISH: So when it came time to name the creature described as a mix between a slender hippo and a long-legged pig, Gunnell says, it was all about the lips. And that usually means an animal that has a lot of blood vessels and nerves that go into the soft tissues around the front of the mouth. GUNNELL: We noticed that the jaws have a lot of what we call foramena - these holes in the jaw. The fossil was found in northern Egypt a few years ago.ĬORNISH: Gunnell says, the team's findings will be published in this month's issue of the Journal of Paleontology. By the way, that it translates to Jagger's water nymph. He's one of the scientists who discovered the remains of the Jaggermeryx. SIEGEL: That's Duke University researcher Gregg Gunnell. Well, we named it Jaggermeryx after Mick Jagger. When scientists are Rolling Stones fans, and they discover a fossil that reveals a big old pout, this is what happens. I've got the moves like Jagger.ĬORNISH: To really embody The Rolling Stones front man, you've got to have lipss like Jagger, just like a prehistoric swamp pig did. MAROON 5: (Singing) I've got the moves like Jagger.

It's one thing to have moves like Jagger.

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