Lady Gaga Inspires Name of Newly Discovered Insect
A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign grad student recently discovered a new insect, and named it after Lady Gaga.That's right, a new treehopper species from near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua is now known as Kaikaia gaga, according to the discoverer Brendan Morris, who is a PhD candidate in entomology.Morris found the insect while looking through roughly 1,000 treehoppers from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History for research.