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04-25-2017, 12:00 AM
Radiohead **w has a fungus-farming ant named after it
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A newly discovered ant species has a particularly moody name: Sericomyrmex radioheadi.
Scientists named the fungus-farming ant to ho**r both the music and climate change activism of British rock band Radiohead.
This particular species, found in Venezuela's slice of the Amazon rainforest, is a less-famous relative of the more popular leaf-cutter ant, they said in a study (http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=11839) published Monday in the journal ZooKeys.
SEE ALSO: These hero ants perform dramatic, mind-boggling rescues of their wounded comrades (http://mashable.com/2017/04/12/heroic-ant-rescue-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The Radiohead ant is at least the second creature this month to receive a rock-inspired name. A pistol shrimp with a bright pink snapping claw was recently christened (http://mashable.com/2017/04/12/pink-floyd-snapping-shrimp-science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Synalpheus pinkfloydi, after the progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/24/scientists-named-ant-species-radiohead/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A newly discovered ant species has a particularly moody name: Sericomyrmex radioheadi.
Scientists named the fungus-farming ant to ho**r both the music and climate change activism of British rock band Radiohead.
This particular species, found in Venezuela's slice of the Amazon rainforest, is a less-famous relative of the more popular leaf-cutter ant, they said in a study (http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=11839) published Monday in the journal ZooKeys.
SEE ALSO: These hero ants perform dramatic, mind-boggling rescues of their wounded comrades (http://mashable.com/2017/04/12/heroic-ant-rescue-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The Radiohead ant is at least the second creature this month to receive a rock-inspired name. A pistol shrimp with a bright pink snapping claw was recently christened (http://mashable.com/2017/04/12/pink-floyd-snapping-shrimp-science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Synalpheus pinkfloydi, after the progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/24/scientists-named-ant-species-radiohead/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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