The tiny wasp is the latest creature to be named after the prolific conservationist.
LONDON, UK — What do you get for the centenarian conservationist who has everything?
Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old on Friday, and scientists have prepared a gift befitting the man who spent a lifetime celebrating our planet: a tiny, flesh-eating parasitic wasp named in his honor.
The new species, Attenboroughnculus tau, is native to Chile and was formally described by researchers at the Natural History Museum in London. The findings were published in the Journal of Natural History ahead of
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