Ancient beast named after Motorhead's frontman

WASHINGTON - A ferocious sea-going crocodile that menaced coastal waters about 164 million years ago during the Jurassic Period has been given a name honoring the similarly ferocious looking heavy-metal rocker Lemmy, the late frontman for the British band Motorhead.

Scientists said on Wednesday they have named the 5.8-meter reptile Lemmysuchus, meaning "Lemmy's crocodile". Its fossils were unearthed near the eastern English city of Peterborough in 1909 and were recently reexamined and determined to be a distinct genus in need of a name.

Its elongated, narrow snout resembled those of modern fish-eating crocs from India called gharials.