Scientists discovered a new snake species in Peru. In recognition of Indiana Jones’s snake phobia, they named it after actor Harrison Ford.
species have already been named after Ford, but a snake is perhaps most suitable for his roles in the five Indiana Jones movies.
“These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it’s always the ones that terrify children,” Ford, 81, said in a statement. “I don’t understand. I spend my free time cross-stitching. I sing lullabies to my basil plants, so they won’t fear the night.”The researchers traveled to Otishi National Park in the Vilcabamba mountain range in May 2022 to search a grassland that had not been fully explored.
About two weeks into the voyage, Lehr and his colleagues decided to call it quits. On the day of their departure, he slipped through mud as he ran toward a helicopter that eventually dropped the group off at a military base before they flew back to the United States.When researchers returned to their lab with the snake, they confirmed via genetic analysis that it was a new species.
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