NPR reports
This week, scientists named seven newly described frog species.
Scientists discover thousands of new species every year — but these have a special claim to fame: They pay homage to Star Trek.
Mark Scherz is one of the authors on the paper about these amphibians and a curator of herpetology (that’s reptiles and amphibians) at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He says these frogs’ calls sound so much like the “futuristic sounding whistles and beeps” of the Star Trek series that they named each of the seven after a captain.
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