Scientists, the unique nerd, often prefer to remind us of that truth by influencing the actual world with a geeky reference, this time with a spider named after a flying beastie from Monster Hunter.
As reported by VG247, a newly found 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 frequent? Nothing, actually, however this spider has no eyes, identical to its namesake.
Khezu, which appear to be pretty regular wyverns from the shoulders down however rapidly break that custom with extremely lengthy necks, an enormous fanged mouth, and retracted eyes as a result of spending most of their time in darkness, have been launched approach again within the unique Monster Hunter from 2004.
Pointed out by @SilencedVouivre on X/Twitter, the identical scientist who named the Otacilia Khezu has additionally named myriad different actual world animals with nerdy references. These embody Funny Valentine and Gryo Zeppeli from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and even one other Monster Hunter reference with the Rathalos genus.
this the identical mf who got here up with Funny valentine, Gyro zeppeli and the Rathalos genus… pic.twitter.com/BCJ6Q6ve5C
— Corvus_大夕儿爆彈 (@SilencedVouivre) June 28, 2024
There are loads of different scientists doing the identical too, nonetheless. The Saurona butterfly was named after the Lord of the Rings’ villain, the Venomius Tomhardyi was considerably bizarrely named after Tom Hardy’s Venom movies, and the Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi snake was named after the Indiana Jones actor.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
