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Bagheera kiplingi // Jumping Spider
This species of Central American jumping spider is named after Bagheera—a benevolent panther who mentors young Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling’s
The Jungle Book. Described in 2009, it was the first predominantly vegetarian spider known to science.
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Han solo // Trilobite
The genus name, Han, refers to the Han nationality, China’s largest ethnic group. When the time came to assign a species name to this long-extinct trilobite native to modern China, paleontologist Samuel Turvey invoked George Lucas’s beloved nerf herder.
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Geragnostus waldorfstatleri // Trilobite
Han solo wasn’t the only trilobite to get a humorous name from Turvey. He thought this fossil’s head resembled