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A spider in the name of Neil Young
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66624b13-ecae-4abb-9055-39101f3b3c0c/C7893E6D-BB43-474D-9897-6994949DD029/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/2254DA02-1FF0-4E60-AA9B-1797056A9B3C" alt="Singer and director Neil Young poses during a photocall to present his Film 'Deja Vu' in Berlin February 8, 2008. (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><P> LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Iconic singer and <SPAN id="lw_1210529634_0" class="yshortcuts">songwriter Neil Young</SPAN> has had an honor bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians -- his own spider. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><P>An <SPAN id="lw_1210529634_1" class="yshortcuts">East Carolina University biologist</SPAN>, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of <SPAN id="lw_1210529634_2" class="yshortcuts">trapdoor spider</SPAN> and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian <SPAN id="lw_1210529634_3" class="yshortcuts">Neil Young</SPAN>, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><P>"There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Bond said in a statement.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><P>"As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to <SPAN id="lw_1210529634_4" class="yshortcuts">Neil Young</SPAN>, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080511/lf_nm_life/spider_young_dc"><P>He confirmed through the spider's DNA that the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is an identifiable, separate species of spider within the trapdoor genus.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C7893E6D-BB43-474D-9897-6994949DD029/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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