Singer David Bowie has had a large, yellow, hairy spider from Malaysia named after him. German spider specialist Peter Jaeger named the new species after Bowie - whose album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was a huge hit in 1972 - because he wanted to raise awareness about the discovery.
Peter Jaeger, who has found 200 new species of arachnids in a decade, says he's named it Heteropoda davidbowie.
(via Neatorama)
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