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Flatworm named after cult pop band ABBA
The music of the Swedish cult band ABBA apparently had a major influence on researchers who discovered a new species of flatworm on Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. The animal was quickly christened Derogenes abba.
They wanted to express their admiration for the music of the Swedish cult band and its positive influence on their lives, according to the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. It was also to mark the 50th anniversary of "the magical evening in Brighton" in 1974, explained the researcher in charge, Chahinez Bouguerche.
Back then, ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo" and thus heralded a global career. Bouguerche had also listened to the music of her favorite band while creating the drawings of the parasitic worm that lived in a fish. So she ultimately decided to honor the pop group in this way.
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