Elise studied marine biology at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. She has worked as a freelance journalist focusing on the aquatic realm. Elise is working with Live Science through Future Academy, a program to train future journalists on best practices in the field.
In the animal kingdom, organisms can be named after anything — an odd behavior, a strange sound and even a funny appearance. The naming system requires all creatures to have two terms; a name that indicates the genus and species.
Upon opening the parcel, Menke looked at the wasps and exclaimed "Aha! A new species!" to which his colleague, Eric Grissell, responded in disbelief,"ha!". In fact, Menke was right, it was a new genus of wasp belonging to the family, Sphecidae, which are thread-waisted wasps that have skinny waists and paralyze their prey.
We cannot be sure what language his interpreters spoke or if the account is actually true. Despite this, American naturalist Thomas S. Savage used the term in the first scientific description of the species - Troglodytes gorilla, now known as the western gorilla. Before he died in 2020, Erwin was responsible for describing 438 species of Carabidae beetles, with names such as Agra cadabra and Agra katewinslettae .
A male specimen of this species was discovered in the southwest of China. Scientists that examined the spider found that the male sported a long and coiled embolus and that it resembled a Hot Wheels track. This species was first described in 1766 by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who said its appearance was similar to a bunch of other animals, according to an article in the American society of mammalogists. The oddball sports a humped back like a camel, a horned and slender head like a goat or deer and a body shape similar to a cow.
Later on, Turvey revealed that his friends dared him to pick that name as they believed most of the characters' names in the franchise sound like scientific names.In 1763, the lower end of a femur was found and described as Scrotum humanum because of its resemblance to human testicles, according to a 2014 article in the journal Science Vision.
Although the name S. humanum is not used today, in 1970 paleontologist Beverley Halstead argued that because it was published first and it followed the naming convention, it should still be accepted. Sphenacodon ferox and Sphenacodon ferocior The genus Sphenacodon contains two species of early reptilian predators in the ultimate showdown for the best name: Sphenacodon ferox versus Sphenacodon ferocior, otherwise known as"fierce" and"more fierce," respectively.
Ampulex dementorAmpulex dementor is a species of wasp in the family Ampulicidae. These cockroach wasps turn their prey into submissive zombies, according to a 2010 study in the journal Communicative and Integrative Biology. Because of its appearance, the species was named after a fictional deep-sea character from the fantasy short story"The Call of Cthulhu," by H. P. Lovecraft. The Cthulhu was a tentacle-headed monster that slumbered in a city at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Until the discovery of A. odysseus, scientists thought hadrosaurids lived only on the isolated supercontinent of Laurasia, because it was surrounded by deep waters, according to a 2010 article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. G. persephone was discovered in underground caves in France in the 1990s. It is named after the queen of the underworld in Greek mythology, in which Persephone was abducted by her uncle, Hades, god of the underworld, who abducted her as his bride..
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