19 Species of Ferns Named for Lady Gaga

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Comment by LT on October 28, 2012 at 4:27pm

Love the DNA GAGA.

Comment by Catherine Mascrès on October 28, 2012 at 1:55pm

Why not! Thank you for sharing.

Comment by Irit Hakim-Keller on October 28, 2012 at 1:46pm

going gaga indeed!!! quite funny..

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 28, 2012 at 6:53am

Crazy scientist's obsession with Lady Gaga makes her to take an extreme step! Or is it scientists making fun of her like musicians?
Science meets “Art”: Ferns named after Lady Gaga

Scientists from Duke University decided to name new 19 species of ferns after Lady Gaga. Hilarious, if you ask me, I don’t know what’s going on with scientists these days but I think they’ve gone a little gaga.
The biologist Kathleen Pryer and her team discovered a new genus of fern, and observing the similarities between these plants and Lady Gaga, maybe they thought that this way everybody will memorize their names easily, they ended up with these names: Gaga germanotta and Gaga monstraparva, the last one translated literally means something like “monster little”.