Ohio Players Inspire Funky Fossil Name

Ohio Players‘ huge 1973 hit “Funky Worm” – remastered and at radio now via Westbound Records and ORG Music –  is one of the most-sampled records in the history of hip hop. As reported last year by Dayton Daily News, the song was also the inspiration behind the name of a newly-discovered species of fossil amphibian discovered by paleontologists from Petrified Forest National Park and Virginia Tech. 

According to VA Tech Ph.D candidate Ben Kligman, “It’s nice to have a speaker with some music playing to keep you motivated while you’re scratching away in the dirt all day long… We were listening to ‘Funky Worm’ when we were discovering these very important fossils of the oldest caecilian ever found. We were like, ‘Whoa, these animals are like worms. That’s pretty funky.’” Get the full story here.