A newly discovered ant species has a particularly moody name: Sericomyrmex radioheadi.
Scientists named the fungus-farming ant to honor both the music and climate change activism of British rock band Radiohead.
This particular species, found in Venezuela's slice of the Amazon rainforest, is a less-famous relative of the more popular leaf-cutter ant, they said in a study published Monday in the journal ZooKeys.
The Radiohead ant is at least the second creature this month to receive a rock-inspired name. A pistol shrimp with a bright pink snapping claw was recently christened Synalpheus pinkfloydi, after the progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Read more...
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