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New species named after Sir David Attenborough to celebrate his 100th birthday 100%
5/8/2026, 12:17:14 PM
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He's a broadcaster, natural history broadcaster primarily,
[music] but even within the scientific community he is held with extremely high regard.
That's both in terms of the content he's producing and well also the the way that that content is inspiring scientists
[music] as well as other people. Astrophobia to kidna was named after him by
>> [music] >> a scientist called Tim Flannery in 1998 when Tim described this species.
And if you read the paper, you [music] will see the note on the naming that says something like the naming of the species in honor of Sir David Attenborough for the contributions [music] that he's made to conservation,
broadcasting, and science. But that's just [music] one example of many species that are named after Sir David Attenborough.
We thought it was really appropriate to honor Sir David Attenborough because this is quite a
unique little wasp. It's a very different from anything that's at all closely related to it. So we named a whole new genus [music]
because we think
The little wasps that I study, there's tens of thousands of species all over the place. There's any number of undescribed species.
[music] It's a little bit more uncommon to find a new genus that's been evolving in its own route for so many millions of years.
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