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In an ironic twist, an Illinois Wesleyan University biologist has named a new species of snake after the actor Harrison Ford. In the iconic movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Ford's character Indiana Jones doesn’t like snakes.

Unlike his Indiana Jones character, Ford says he likes snakes and called the discovery "humbling".

Meet Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi and learn why scientists named the snake species after actor Harrison Ford.

It is not the first time that a newly discovered animal has been named after the actor

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It sounds like a nightmare, but snakes in toilets have made headlines this summer (multiple times). It can happen here. We tell you how to stop it.

With a bacterial infection. she is 65 today. the celebration tour will now start in london on october the 1ath, three months after it was originally due to begin in vancouver. investigators are looking into the cause of a fire on a wind turbine off the norfolk coast near great yarmouth. plumes of smoke were seen coming from the scroby sands wind farm yesterday. the owner says it has since gone out. dramatic pictures. harrison ford is famous for playing a film character who is afraid of snakes, i...

Harrison Ford is the namesake of a newly discovered snake species -- even though Indiana Jones fears snakes.

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“These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it’s always the ones that terrify children," actor Harrison Ford said in a recent interview.