There are several tributes to legendary head coach Nick Saban on the campus of the University of Alabama. A statue featuring the coach clapping, named the Nick Saban Walk of Champions Statue, was unveiled on the campus in 2011. After Saban’s retirement, the field at Bryant-Denny Stadium was named Saban Field in his honor.
Now he has something else named in his honor by University of Alabama researchers.
A team led by University of Alabama researchers have discovered several ancient crab and shrimp fossils from central Alabama, and the have named the most common fossil Costacopluma nicksabani.
Or the Saban Crab, for short.
“While the dinosaurs disappeared about 66 million years ago after
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