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Oscar Piastri Honoured With 98-Million-Year-Old Wasp Species Named After Him
A newly discovered species of ancient wasp has been officially named after McLaren F1 driver Oscar Piastri, in a remarkable crossover between motorsport and palaeontology. The discovery was published in a research article for Palaeoworld: Volume 35, Issue 3, titled ‘New flat wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from the middle Cretaceous Kachin amber of Myanmar'. The research was carried out by Corentin Jouault from the University of Oxford, Di-Ying Huang from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in China, and Celso O. Azevedo from the Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo in Brazil. The species named after the McLaren driver is called Gwesped piastrii, a...
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