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NatureCriminal7896;4287220 said:Yes. they found him right after Michael death. that's why he is name after him.
The team made the surprising discovery on June 25, 2009. Later that day, while meeting at a restaurant in the city of Alsasua, the group saw on TV that international superstar Michael Jackson had passed away that day. The paleontologists decided to honor the “King of Pop” by the naming the new species after the late music icon: Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni.
https://phys.org/news/2012-01-mesoparapylocheles-michaeljacksoni-fossil-hermit-crab.html