Iron Maiden is popular among biologists and taxonomists, so they just named a new lizard species after frontman Bruce Dickinson

A new species of wood lizard has been found in northeastern Peru, and the biologists involved in the discovery have named it after legendary heavy metal musician and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson. According to Louder:

Enyalioides dickinsoni was found in the Cordillera de Colán mountain range 460 miles north of Lima, Peru.

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