Scientists being funny

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Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature is a site dedicated to amusing (for some value of amusing) organism names. My favorite has to be Apopyllus now (a spider), closely followed by Ytu brutus (water beetle).

Found via this ny times article, which via.

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