Game of Thrones will be immortalised by the discovery of a new species of beetle.
A Nebraska professor has named his new find, a scarab beetle species, after the three dragons in Game of Thrones, because why wouldn’t you.
Brett Radcliffe named the bugs drogoni, rhaegali and viserioni; Latinised versions of Daenerys Targaryen’s winged children, Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion.
Obviously Radcliffe is a huge fan of the George RR Martin series, but he actually wanted the names to reflect biodiversity and the amount of species out there still left to discover.
‘When you create names like these, you do it to gain a little bit of notoriety and bring public attention to it,’ said Ratcliffe. ‘We’re still discovering life on Earth. One of every four living things on Earth is a beetle. We haven’t discovered them all. We’re not even close.’
He added: ‘I’ve often thought that scientists take themselves too seriously and this is a way to circumvent that.’
The drogoni and viserioni beetles were discovered in Colombia and Ecudaor while the rhaegali can be found in French Guiana, just in case you happen to be swinging by any of those landmarks anytime soon.
Dany’s dragons have been causing all sorts of controversy over the Christmas holidays after a fan pointed out that they’re not actually dragons at all, and, in turn, all hell broke loose among the Game of Thrones fandom.
Martin did actually settle the debate in his latest novel Fore & Blood, although that appears to have been overlooked.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO and Sky Atlantic in April 2019.
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