Harrison Ford has earned the right to be curmudgeonly—however the 81-year-old star of so many iconic films is understood for tempering his grouchiness with sly humor and coronary heart. That got here by means of one hundred pc in an announcement he shared after scientists found a brand new species of snake in Peru’s Otishi Nationwide Park and named it Tachymenoides harrisonfordi.
“The snake’s obtained eyes you’ll be able to drown in, and he spends a lot of the day sunning himself by a pool of soiled water—we most likely would’ve been buddies within the early ‘60s,” the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny star mentioned in an announcement to Conservation International (by way of People), of which the actor serves as vice-chairman. “In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling. It’s a reminder that there’s nonetheless a lot to study our wild world—and that people are one small a part of an impossibly huge biosphere. On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and proper now, a million species are teetering on the sting of oblivion. We’ve an existential mandate to fix our damaged relationship with nature and defend the locations that maintain life.”
Based on Conservation Worldwide, the invention was made by a crew from the U.S. and Peru led by Illinois Wesleyan College biology professor Edgar Lehr; the identify happened due to Ford’s “decades-long environmental advocacy.” Whereas the snake (“pale, yellowish-brown with scattered black blotches, a black stomach, and a vertical streak over its copper-colored eye”) is thematically becoming given Indiana Jones’ well-known affiliation with them, Ford has additionally had a spider (Calponia harrisonfordi) and an ant named after him (Pheidole harrisonfordi).
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