New black tarantula species named after Johnny Cash

Q.  A new tarantula has been named after which American music legend?
- Published on 08 Feb 16

a. Elvis Presley
b. Johnny Cash
c. Gloria Gaynor
d. Aretha Franklin

ANSWER: Johnny Cash
 
Scientists who found a new kind of black tarantula known as Aphonopelma johnnycashi is all black, the way Cash often dressed when he strummed his guitar and sang songs like 'The Man in Black' and 'Folsom Prison Blues’, in field research carried out in Folsom, California. The tarantula is one of the 14 new spider species found in southwestern US.

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