The Metaphysics of Pepe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/20/the-sudden-political-life-of-a-550-million-year-old-immobile-sea-creature/?utm_term=.5df475f49a1c

Obama thinks he's a parasite that eats turtles. WRONG AMPHIBIAN, BITCH!

"It also marks yet another moment Obama has been immortalized in scientific discovery. In 2016, scientists named a parasitic worm that feeds off turtles after him. That same year, in a surely more flattering moment, a marine biologist discovered a new kind of colorful fish, deeming it Tosanoides obama.

Attenborites janeae, shaped and grooved liked a raisin, may have floated in the ocean, Droser added. And the shapes of both are wildly distinctive.

“There is nothing like [them]. That’s fun. That’s really different,” she said.

Droser and members of her team have worked for decades in the region, but the fossil bed has been unprecedented in its new riches. It was dubbed “Alice’s Restaurant Bed,” an homage to the Arlo Guthrie song and its refrain: “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”