Wildlife documentary maker and national treasure Sir David Attenborough has been honoured with another discovery being named after him.
A 430-million-year-old fossil found ‘frozen in time’ has been called Cascolus Ravitis, Cascolus being the Latin equivalent to the Old English word for Attenborough.
Recently, a newly discovered species of frog – the Pristimantis attenboroughi, which lives high in the Andes Mountains of South America – was been named after Attenborough.
Ravitis refers in part to the Roman name for Leicester (ratae), the University from which the researchers herald and where Attenborough studied, and the word for life (vita).