10-25-2019, 11:35 AM
** 25-Oct-2019 World View: New beetle named after Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage girl who has been going around the
world declaring that we should all be ashamed of ourselves because
we're inflicting climate change on her, now has a brand new honor.
Scientist Dr Michael Darby was studying a newly-discovered species of
beetle, and decided to name it "Nelloptodes greta" after Thunberg
because he was "immensely impressed" by her environmental campaigning.
Thunberg shares this honor with others. A scientist named an
amphibian "Dermophis donaldtrumpi" after Donald Trump because it
buries its head in the sand.
And a German admirer of Adolf Hitler in 1933 named a blind cave beetle
the "Anophthalmus hitleri."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50182815
- Greta Thunberg and Nelloptodes greta (BBC)
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage girl who has been going around the
world declaring that we should all be ashamed of ourselves because
we're inflicting climate change on her, now has a brand new honor.
Scientist Dr Michael Darby was studying a newly-discovered species of
beetle, and decided to name it "Nelloptodes greta" after Thunberg
because he was "immensely impressed" by her environmental campaigning.
Thunberg shares this honor with others. A scientist named an
amphibian "Dermophis donaldtrumpi" after Donald Trump because it
buries its head in the sand.
And a German admirer of Adolf Hitler in 1933 named a blind cave beetle
the "Anophthalmus hitleri."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50182815