Scientists announced the discovery of 15 new species of spiders this week. They are native to the Cari...  ...tive to the Caribbean, and were given taxonomical names that referenced several famous people, including...  ...Michelle Obama. Okay, if you had to come up with names fo...

A team of scientists from universities in the UK,...  ...n the UK, the US, and Brazil have described a new species of pistol shrimp in the journal Zootaxa. They named it after their favorite band, because it resemble...  ...sembles them in a couple of ways.Researchers have named...

Those who have the honor of naming a new species can put a lot of thought into it, to come up with...  ...into it, to come up with a wonderfully evocative name like Tyrannosaurus rex. Or they can go the easy r...  ...rex. Or they can go the easy route, like whoever named Allosau...