General Discussion

This kind of bird is actually called a Flufftail. Scientists are incredible. I can't. [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/37/e4/fc/37e4fc1517b160e1b824a68c6c1c93cf.jpg[/img] EDIT: Figured I’d find more strangeness. This fish’s scientific name is [i]Boops boops[/i]. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Boga_Galiza.jpg/1200px-Boga_Galiza.jpg[/img]

Hm, at the botanical gardens there was a flower called a "whopper flopper" ..yup..

And a local scientist has been naming spiders after celebs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-spider-species-named-for-angelina-jolie-bono/

We have a Neil Young spider too, as well as an Auburn Tiger trapdoor spider (mascot of the university the guy is affiliated with..)

@Surei the guy’s expression in that image though xD There’s an animal called the dik-dik .-. [img]http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/istock_000033361418_small.jpg[/img]

Yoos all forgettin' blue footed Boobies and GreatTits (had to type this as all one word cuz censors are dumb) [quote][img]https://www.gardenbird.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/662x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/g/r/great_tit.jpg[/img] GreatTit[/quote] [quote][img]https://amedia.britannica.com/500x450/83/189183-004-574E2DBE.jpg[/img] Blue footed booby[/quote]

[color=#800040]There's a gene in fruit flies that's called gurken (= cucumbers) and the receptor for it's gene product is called torpedo. There's also a gene called spätzle (named after a type of austrian pasta (?)). A very important protein for limb and brain development (and some other things) is called Shh, which is short for Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah. There's also some fun scientific species names out there: [i]Aha ha[/i] is the name of an australian wasp. [i]Gelae baen[/i] and [i]Gelae donut[/i] are the names of two beetles. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Spongiforma_squarepantsii_151595.jpg/300px-Spongiforma_squarepantsii_151595.jpg[/img] This handsome species of sponge is called [i]Spongiforma squarepantsii[/i] [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Boga_Galiza.jpg/1200px-Boga_Galiza.jpg[/img] This fish's scientific name is [i]Boops boops[/i] [img]https://media.fromthegrapevine.com/assets/images/2014/9/hoopoe-feature.jpg.824x0_q71_crop-scale.jpg[/img] The hoopoe's scientific name is [i]Upopa epops[/i]. Both it's name and scientific name are onomatopoeias (RIP how do you even write that word) [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY9ceVllE1M]for the sound it makes[/url]. [img]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/2015/03/24/peacockspider/01peacockspider.adapt.676.1.jpg[/img] This species of peacock spider is calles sparklemuffin. [img]https://www.quantumbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Scaptia-beyonceae.jpg[/img][/color] [quote]In 2011, when curator Bryan Lessard began describing a previously unknown species of Australian horsefly from an old museum collection, he was immediately mesmerized by the fly’s spectacular lower abdomen, bedazzled with dense golden hairs. What a glamorous bum, he thought. One might even call it… “bootylicious.” So he named it [i]Scaptia beyonceae[/i][/quote] [color=#800040][img]https://www.quantumbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Smaug1.jpg[/img] This species of lizard is appropiately called [i]Smaug giganteus[/i] [img]https://www.quantumbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Han-solo-1024x683.jpg[/img] "What are we gonna call this species of triolbite? Oh, I know! Let's call it [i]Han Solo[/i]!"[/color] [quote]Researcher Samuel Turvey does admit that his friends dared him to name something after a Star Wars character. But the name is actually very clever. For one thing, the fossil was discovered in the Hunan [hoo-non] Province of China and the Han people are a large Chinese ethnic group. The animal also happens to be the only known member of its family, hence the “solo”. Trilobites were also diverse, widely distributed, and if you can find one, they’re often nearly as well preserved as Harrison Ford in carbonite.[/quote] [color=#800040]There's also the tasseled wobbegong, which looks just as ridiculous as its name sounds: [img]https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/images/default-source/animals/tasselledwobbe_520.jpg?sfvrsn=4.jpg[/img] So basically, scientists are nerds. [/color]

[quote name="Surei" date="2018-03-11 22:41:00" ] blobfish [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtSbO7FWIAAfOx5.jpg[/img] [/quote] I've seen this picture so many times and I still have no idea why David Tennant is holding a blobfish. I think the reason will evade us all until the universe ends. Unless it's a David Tennant-lookalike, but I'm pretty certain that's David Tennant.