Tuesday, September 15, 2009

David Bowie gets a spider named after him


I didn't realize how cool it is to name spiders and beetles after celebrities. Naming one after David Bowie makes sense seeing as he actually had a backing band called the "Spiders from Mars" in the 70s.

Here is the news article about this new spider Heteropoda davidbowie.

Neil Young had the honor as well last year. Read more about his spider here.

After reading that article I learned Roy Orbison has a beetle named after him! Read here.

And in case you haven't totally lost interest in this arachnid related post there was also a spider named after Stephen Colbert last year. geez. Scientists really are dorks.

1 comment:

  1. ooh, and it's a big, scary-looking spider too!

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