Articles Posted in the Green News category
Beetle mania
February 2, 2008
Posted in Green News
An entemologist has named a new species of whirligig beetle from India after rock ‘n’ roll legend Roy Orbison and his wife Barbara. In 2005, the same entemologist named new species of slime-mould beetles after Darth Vader, US president George Bush, US vice-president Dick Cheney and former secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld. Who said scientists don’t have a sense of humour?
