Newly Discovered Treefrog Is Named After Stanley Kubrick
This calendar month , Stanley Kubrick joins the long tilt of celebrities who have had a new species of plant or creature named in their honor . Beyonce has theScaptia beyonceae , a golden - canted horse tent-fly . Hugh Hefner , theSylvilagus palustris hefneri – a bunny because of course . And Obama , who has had not one , butnine dissimilar speciesnamed after him , including a small , chunky beaked bird that go in the Amazonian rainforest ( Nystalus obamai ) and a now - nonextant infantry - farseeing lizard that roamed ancient North America ( Obamadon gracilis )...