Beetle named after Greta Thunberg to honour her phenomenal efforts

Natural History Museum in London anunced that a newly discovered miniature beetle is named after 16-year-old climate activist, Greta Thunberg on October 25. Michael Darby, a scientific associate at museum houred Swedish activist by naming tiny creature as “Nelloptodes gretae” which also belongs to smallest kwn free-living animals. scientists recognized Thunberg's vocacy for climate action and protection of natural world and named an entire species of beetles after her which is w formally registered in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 

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'Smallest free-living creature'

Darby mitted to having been working on a family of beetles which are also 'smallest free-living creatures'. He furr also explains that beetles are t parasitic but are living creatures in soil and feeds on fungal hyphae and spores. re are dozen of or species just in United Kingdom which are still unkwn as ir diversity is poorly understood. Darby also ackwledges that it is first time a species is named after teen environmentalist because he is t aware of any or beetle named after her. N gretae was reportedly found in Kenya in 1960s by William Block, who donated his samples to London Museum of Natural History in 1978. senior curator in charge of beetles in museum, Max Barclay said that undiscovered species are getting extinct all time before even being named and thus, it was appropriate to name newest discovery after Thunberg. 

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Greta set to visit Vancouver

Greta Thunberg is expected to take part in a rally on October 25 outside Vancouver Art Gallery as part of her future campaigns. 16-year-old protested in Edmonton, Cana outside legislature recently, however, her rally was met with counter-protests by oil and gas supporters.  Swedish activist me helines after she started missing school on Friday's and protested outside Swedish Parliament to take action against Climate Change, met global leers and urged m to take action against climate change. Greta also dressed UN Climate Change convention where she gave a powerful speech and lashed out at Global leers for ir inaction to curb climate change around globe. 

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