Sentences with phrase «species named after»

As a result, there's a myriad of new species named after fictional

Aspergillus, a genus of several hundred mold species named after aspergillum.

Born: 13/03/49 Age at which he found his first fossil, a seashell: 7 Longest expedition: 3 months («In the Gobi Desert») Year in which he first named a newly discovered dinosaur species: 1979 (Amblydactylus kortmeyeri) Number of new species he's helped name: 30 Number of new species named after him: 5

Not exact matches

Go watch Dr. Horner's TED talk on dinosaurs — what scientists called evolution may indeed be age related changes in far fewer species than those «scientists» had named after themselves.

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

Fifty - four clubs in the first eight levels of the football pyramid are named after birds, with 20 different species represented.

1825: Only the second dinosaur (after Megalosaurus) to be classified scientifically, the species's first fragmentary fossils were named by British paleontologist Gideon Mantell for the similarity of their teeth to those of iguanas.

The name Alamosaurus came from the Ojo Alamo trading post and geological formation in New Mexico from which the first bones of the species were found (not after the historic battle in San Antonio, Texas in 1836).

They named the new species Sciaphila yakushimensis (Suetsugu, Tsukaya & H. Ohashi) after its place of discovery.

In 2000, after more detailed study, the Quitobaquito pupfish was named a species in its own right and put on a separate taxonomic rung from the desert pupfish.

In keeping with the naming of its living relative (after an Eastern Cape river), the species name of the new fossil form, kowiensis, is after the Kowie River which rises among the hills where it was found, and the genus name, Serenichthys, honours Serena Gess, who provided land for the storage of more than 70 tons of black shale rescued from roadworks for ongoing research — in which all the new material was found.

The coccoliths of one species, Emiliania huxleyi — named after Huxley — reflect sunlight, turning thousands of square miles of water white or aqua.

Of the new species, one has been named Aphonopelma johnnycashi after the influential American singer - songwriter Johnny Cash.

Identified as a new species, it has been named Chupkaornis keraorum — Chupka is the Ainu word used by indigenous people from Hokkaido for «eastern,» and keraorum is named after Masatoshi and Yasuji Kera, who discovered the specimen.

«New tarantula named after Johnny Cash among 14 spider species found in the United States.»

A new moth species, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, has just been named after U.S. President - elect Donald Trump, The Washington Post reports.

«New species of dinosaur named after Canadian icon: Dinosaur species from Alberta.»

Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) samples from Mexico and from the Berlin Zoological Garden revealed a new endogenous retrovirus (named DrERV after Desmodus rotundus endogenous retrovirus) that is also present in rodents and primates but is absent in other closely related bat species.

The species is named after Dr. Hussam El - Dine Zaher, a Brazilian herpetologist whose work has been foundational for South American snakes.

Without «legislative power to stop reclamation, crossing the «red line» is just a matter of time,» warns Jing Li, founder of the Shanghai - based nonprofit Saving the Spoon - Billed Sandpiper in China, named after a critically endangered species that depends upon China's coastal mudflats.

Recorded as deep as -1100 m the new species was named Geophilus hadesi, after Hades, the God of the Underworld in the Greek Mythology.

«Love conquers all: A new beetle species from Cambodia named after Venus.»

The team described and named the new mantis species Cornucollis masoalensis after the locality where the mantis was originally collected.

Instead of retyping his entire paper, he simply tacked on his cat Chester, sneakily calling him «F.D.C. Willard» after his species name, Felix domesticus, his actual name, Chester, and the name of the cat's father, Willard.

And if naming a new species after a celebrity brings some of that excitement about biodiversity and evolution to a wider audience, then everybody wins.

«Named after Stanley Kubrick, a new species of frog is a «clockwork orange» of nature.»

The newly discovered species was named Microhyla laterite (M. laterite) after the habitat it resides in.

Chuck was quick to mention «I want to name new species after all of my children.»

After 200 years of ambiguity, years of fierce debate and a record number of formal comments on the proposed name, a commission has declared gigantea the one true species term for the Aldabra giant tortoises.

The new genus and species is named after two individuals.

Audubon, naming it scientifically after his friend Thomas Nuttall, wrote: «It is to him alone that we owe all that is known respecting the present species.»

«Wasps, ants, and Ani DiFranco: Graduate student names ant - feeding wasp species after the musician Ani DiFranco.»

A University of California, Riverside graduate student has discovered several news species of wasps, including one that she named after musician Ani DiFranco.

The new species, Hakawai melvillei, is named after a «mystery bird» in Māori mythology and in honour of New Zealand - based ornithologist and ecologist David Melville.

«Avian flu» differs in being named after an entire vertebrate class with 8,800 — 10,200 species.

The first species, «Saurichthys breviabdominalis,» is named for its relatively short body and the second, «Saurichthys rieppeli,» is named after Olivier Rieppel, a Swiss paleontologist formerly based at the University of Zurich.

And Fleagle, after whom one of the species was named, calls the discoveries «a wonderful story of perseverance» over many years of research.

(The species were named after two notable primatologists, John Fleagle of Stony Brook University in New York, and Gregg Gunnell, who is now at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.)

STAR TURN The tardigrade species newly named Macrobiotus shonaicus (after the Shonai region of Japan where it was discovered) has a rare talent for growing under lab conditions.

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

The new species is named «Kani maranjandu» after the Kani tribe in Kerala, who helped discover the tree crab.

«That spider species will be named after Bernie forever,» says Ben Chomitz, another of the student researchers.

Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare ant species in Africa after important figures in African biodiversity conservation — a former United States president, a writer - activist, and a world - renowned scientist.

Meanwhile, the scientific name of the new species is Pylopaguropsis mollymullerae after Ellen Muller's young granddaughter Molly Muller.

After examining hundreds of present - day microbes, he named 11 possible species in his collection and gave the back story in a 1999 book called Cradle of Life.

The virus, named after the Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri, where the farmers had been treated, is a species of the genus Phlebovirus.

The star of the show is Chororatherium roobii, a new species named in part after a local word for hippopotamus.

After all, scientists have described and named nearly 2 million species of organisms.

For example, some sacred sites are named after the long - standing vegetation communities grown in that area; yet many of the species may no longer be present under future climates.

Here's where it gets more complicated: Specific species and strains — the species name comes after the genus, and the strain often looks like a little code of letters and / or numbers on the end — of probiotics have been studied in regards to certain health conditions.