Famed Naturalist Sir David Attenborough Honored In New Beetle Species


Aug 14, 2021

Famed BBC naturalist Sir David Attenborough can now add prehistoric beetle to his list of accomplishments. The “Planet Earth” host was honored in the naming of a new beetle species believed to live 49 million years ago.

Scientists from Denver’s Museum of Nature & Science Senior and the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg Invertebrate Zoology Collections Curator, identified the beetle species, which has been on exhibit inside the Denver Museum since 1995. The findings are published in the recent issue of the journal Papers in Palaeontology.

The frog-legged beetle, now, officially “Attenborough’s Beauty” or Pulchritudo attenboroughi, was discovered in the Green River Formation in Colorado.

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