It’s now official: British singer Ozzy Osbourne is the descendant of a Neanderthal man.
Researchers who studied the DNA of the 61-year-old heavy metal singer, who has survived years of drug abuse and alcohol addiction, found that he shares the genome of a prehistoric man. Neanderthals may have died out 30,000 years ago, but their genes are believed to be living in some modern humans.
The DNA study also revealed that the singer is also a distant relative of outlaw Jesse James — the last Russian Czar Nicholas II and King George I — and shares some genes with the ancient Romans, the Daily Mail reported.
Osbourne, who famously bit the head off a bat while drunk on stage and broke his neck in a quad bike accident in 2003, joked that news of his Neanderthal heritage would not come “as much of a surprise” to his wife Sharon.