Friday, September 09, 2016

A Fitting Honor

A new species of blood fluke was found infecting the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. This parasitic flatworm has been dubbed Baracktrema obamai, in honor of the President of the United States (who is the fifth cousin twice removed of one of the discovering scientists). [More]
Remarkable similarity, and that's no fluke.

[Via Keith B]
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