New Spider Named for David Bowie

In an announcement from the Senckenberg Research Institute and German Natural History Museum, arachnologist Dr. Peter Jäger said that he had classified the newly-discovered species related to huntsman spiders from across Asia under the new genus Bowie gen. nov., in commemoration of the musician’s 75th birthday in 2022. Jäger’s work was published in Zootaxa journal on August 4. “I wanted to commemorate this incomparable artist who left us much too early, but what matters most to me here is the idea of conservation: We only protect what we know – and an attractive name is much more likely to be remembered,” Jäger said in a press release. He also said that since he couldn’t assign these species to any preexisting genus, he dedicated it instead to David Bowie, who died in 2016 of liver cancer at the age of 69 years old. #davidbowie #bowie #s #ziggystardust #music #davidbowieforever #bowieforever #rock #davidbowiefan #starman #vinyl #labyrinth #davidrobertjones #aladdinsane #davidbow