David Bowie has received one of the most unusual tributes of his career. A newly discovered Malaysian spider has been named after the rock star.

The giant yellow and very hairy spider has been named Heteropoda davidbowie and is the most recent discovery of German spider specialist Peter Jäger, who has found 200 new species in the past 10 years.

He's like the Stephen Hawking of pop. Great stuff.

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Funnily enough I've just heard this story on the radio which says that "on average, two new species have been discovered in (Australia) every week during the last decade".

An interesting one is that it includes "the flesh-eating pitcher plant, found on northern Cape York in 2006, which eats small rats, lizards and birds."

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Credibility, perhaps. Immortality, definitely.
That said, I believe this geezer also named a spider after Stephen Colbert.

Don't look at the carpet

Didn't see this thread. Anyway, sincerest form of flattery and all that

Here's a pic:http://idw-online.de/pages/en/image96236

The Magnificent Beast.