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Scientists Name Newly Discovered Eyeless Spider After Blind Flying Wyvern From Monster Hunter
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 63967" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Scientists, the original nerd, occasionally like to remind us of that fact by influencing the real world with a geeky reference, this time with a spider name after a flying beastie from Monster Hunter.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As reported by <a href="https://www.vg247.com/a-new-eyeless-spider-just-dropped-and-its-namesake-fittingly-comes-from-monster-hunter" target="_blank">VG247</a>, a newly discovered spider from China has been named the Otacilia Khezu after Khezu, the flying wyvern from Monster Hunter. What do spiders and flying wyverns have in common? Nothing, really, but this spider has no eyes, just like its namesake.</p><p></p><p>Khezu, which look like fairly normal wyverns from the shoulders down but quickly break that tradition with incredibly long necks, a giant fanged mouth, and retracted eyes due to spending most of their time in darkness, were introduced way back in the original Monster Hunter from 2004.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Pointed out by <a href="https://x.com/SilencedVouivre/status/1806729097848209478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">@SilencedVouivre</a> on X/Twitter, the same scientist who named the Otacilia Khezu has also named myriad other real world animals with nerdy references. These include Funny Valentine and Gryo Zeppeli from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and even another Monster Hunter reference with the Rathalos genus.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are plenty of other scientists doing the same too, however. <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/lord-of-the-rings-villain-lends-its-name-to-newly-discovered-butterfly" target="_blank">The Saurona butterfly was named after the Lord of the Rings' villain</a>, the <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/the-venom-spider-new-genus-named-after-tom-hardys-marvel-anti-hero" target="_blank">Venomius Tomhardyi was somewhat bizarrely named after Tom Hardy's Venom films</a>, and the Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi snake <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/harrison-ford-gets-new-species-of-snake-named-after-him" target="_blank">was named after the Indiana Jones actor</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/scientists-name-newly-discovered-eyeless-spider-after-blind-flying-wyvern-from-monster-hunter" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 63967, member: 1"] Scientists, the original nerd, occasionally like to remind us of that fact by influencing the real world with a geeky reference, this time with a spider name after a flying beastie from Monster Hunter. As reported by [URL='https://www.vg247.com/a-new-eyeless-spider-just-dropped-and-its-namesake-fittingly-comes-from-monster-hunter']VG247[/URL], a newly discovered spider from China has been named the Otacilia Khezu after Khezu, the flying wyvern from Monster Hunter. What do spiders and flying wyverns have in common? Nothing, really, but this spider has no eyes, just like its namesake. Khezu, which look like fairly normal wyverns from the shoulders down but quickly break that tradition with incredibly long necks, a giant fanged mouth, and retracted eyes due to spending most of their time in darkness, were introduced way back in the original Monster Hunter from 2004. Pointed out by [URL='https://x.com/SilencedVouivre/status/1806729097848209478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw']@SilencedVouivre[/URL] on X/Twitter, the same scientist who named the Otacilia Khezu has also named myriad other real world animals with nerdy references. These include Funny Valentine and Gryo Zeppeli from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and even another Monster Hunter reference with the Rathalos genus. There are plenty of other scientists doing the same too, however. [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/lord-of-the-rings-villain-lends-its-name-to-newly-discovered-butterfly']The Saurona butterfly was named after the Lord of the Rings' villain[/URL], the [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/the-venom-spider-new-genus-named-after-tom-hardys-marvel-anti-hero']Venomius Tomhardyi was somewhat bizarrely named after Tom Hardy's Venom films[/URL], and the Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi snake [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/harrison-ford-gets-new-species-of-snake-named-after-him']was named after the Indiana Jones actor[/URL]. [I]Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.[/I] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/scientists-name-newly-discovered-eyeless-spider-after-blind-flying-wyvern-from-monster-hunter"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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