It's official: Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers are literally fossils

A paleontologist at the University of Iowa has named newly discovered fossils after Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers. (St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre)

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers have been forever immortalized — in fossil form. 

Thanks to a professor of paleontology at the University of Iowa, two newly discovered fossils have been named after the legendary trio, who have been entertaining audiences at home in Newfoundland and Labrador — and far beyond — for decades. 

The 460-million-year-old trilobite species will be known as Oenonella wasisnamei and Oenenella otherfellersorum. 

Jonathan Adrain, originally from Alberta, was introduced to the music of Buddy Wasisname