Anonymous ID: d53e99 July 29, 2020, 7:34 a.m. No.10114607   🗄️.is 🔗kun

During the past year CSIRO scientists have given scientific names to 165 new species, including tributes to Marvel characters Deadpool, Thor, Loki, and Black Widow along the way.

Paying homage to another name creator, they also named a fly after Stan Lee, the comic book creator who named the Marvel characters.

CSIRO entomologist Dr. Bryan Lessard, who himself goes by superhero name "Bry the Fly Guy" on social media, said naming new species is an important super-power in solving many of the world's challenges.

"Deadpool fly is an assassin with markings on its back that resembles Deadpool's mask," Dr. Lessard said.

 

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-deadpool-species-scientists.html