28-10-2026 21:01 via Popular Science

Spider named after Stephen Colbert has twice as many chromosomes as you

Stephen Colbert’s tenure as host of The Late Show sadly ended when CBS cancelled the historic series in May, but his 11-season run was only possible thanks to a prior gig. From 2005 to 2014, former The Daily Show alum played a larger-than-life, egotistical caricature of himself for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. In 2008, a team of entomologists even named newly discovered species of trapdoor spider after him: Aptostichus stephencolberti. And yes, the “t” in “stephencolberti” is
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