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What do Taylor Swift, Jackie Chan, Adolf Hitler and several Nobel Peace laureates all have in common? Over the past 100 years, they’ve all had plants, animals, insects or other new-to-science species named in their honor. The practice of using eponyms, or scientific names based on real or fictional people, has been in place since […]
JUNÍN, Ecuador On the banks of a crystalline waterfall, biologist Andrea Teran lets out a yelp.She holds in the palm of her hand one of two frog species at the centre of a legal battle against Ecuador's mining industry.Teran, 37, is a specialist in the fragile existence of a creature called the Resistance Rocket Frog, which does not yet have a scientific name, and the
Ecuadoran frogs Rocket and Harlequin taking on mining industry borneobulletin.com.bn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from borneobulletin.com.bn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.