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He claims his superhuman genes have kept him healthy despite a lifetime of rock n roll excess.
And now it seems science may back up Ozzy Osbournes theory that he has a particularly hardy family tree.
Researchers studying his DNA have found that the singer is the descendant of a Neanderthal man.
He is also a distant relative of outlaw Jesse James, the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and King George I and shares some genes with the ancient Romans.
Family album: Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, left, is the descendant of a Neanderthal man, according to researchers
The 61-year-old hellraiser, who has survived years of drug abuse and alcohol addiction, joked that news of his Neanderthal heritage would not come as much of a surprise to his wife Sharon or to police departments around the world.
He famously bit the head off a bat while drunk on stage, broke his neck in a quad bike accident in 2003 and has admitted theres no plausible reason why he is still alive.
Scientists made the discovery by taking a sample of the singers blood at his home in Buckinghamshire and sending it to a lab in New Jersey in the U.S.. Using a state-of-the-art £12,000 test, they were able to unlock his genetic code, or genome.
The researchers discovered that the star shares some DNA with the ancient Romans who were killed in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...zy-Osbourne-IS-Neanderthal.html#ixzz13PR8yBIU
And now it seems science may back up Ozzy Osbournes theory that he has a particularly hardy family tree.
Researchers studying his DNA have found that the singer is the descendant of a Neanderthal man.
He is also a distant relative of outlaw Jesse James, the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and King George I and shares some genes with the ancient Romans.
Family album: Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, left, is the descendant of a Neanderthal man, according to researchers
The 61-year-old hellraiser, who has survived years of drug abuse and alcohol addiction, joked that news of his Neanderthal heritage would not come as much of a surprise to his wife Sharon or to police departments around the world.
He famously bit the head off a bat while drunk on stage, broke his neck in a quad bike accident in 2003 and has admitted theres no plausible reason why he is still alive.
Scientists made the discovery by taking a sample of the singers blood at his home in Buckinghamshire and sending it to a lab in New Jersey in the U.S.. Using a state-of-the-art £12,000 test, they were able to unlock his genetic code, or genome.
The researchers discovered that the star shares some DNA with the ancient Romans who were killed in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...zy-Osbourne-IS-Neanderthal.html#ixzz13PR8yBIU
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