Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been introduced to a 469-million-year-old fossil named after him: the Drepanoistodus Iommii.The formal ceremony took place this week near the Black Sabbath bench in Birmingham conducted by Westside Business Improvement District (BID) general manager Mike Olley.A photograph of a fossil was shown to Iommi up close.
The veteran guitarist expressed his excitement in a video by Westside BID.“It was a real shock to learn that a real fossil has been named after me,” he said, before joking that “you can imagine my friends now, and all the abuse I’ve got.” He later added that the fossil “has to be the most weirdest thing that’s ever been named after me.”In the clip, Iommi also meets paleontologist Mats Eriksson, who.
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