By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer |
July 7, 2017 05:00pm ET
A newly identified wolf spider
looks so much like Aragog, the giant, fictional spider from the "Harry
Potter" series, that the creature is being named after the colossal
arachnid, a new study reports.
The naming opportunity was too
good to pass up, the researchers said. The animatronic puppet created for the
movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was based on the
anatomy of a wolf spider, said study co-researcher Alireza Zamani, a graduate
student of animal biosystematics at the University of Tehran in Iran.
"We found out that there was
an extreme similarity between our spider and Aragog as he was depicted in the
second film," Zamani told Live Science in an email. "Since it was
also the 20th anniversary of the whole 'Harry Potter' series, we thought it
might be a good idea and celebration of this wonderful franchise" [to name
the spider after Aragog].
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