Is there a ‘Gnathia marleyi’ T-shirt?

Published 8:24 pm Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Is there a T-shirt?

Is This Love? A marine biologist and fan of Bob Marley has honored the late Jamaican reggae star by naming a newly discovered species after him. The Arkansas State University scientist named the creature “Gnathia marleyi.” It’s a tiny blood-sucking parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs.

We would say Marley is probably rolling in his grave, but he’s been rolling his own long before this happened.

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This is the guy you name a parasite after: A Tacoma man has pleaded not guilty to insurance fraud after he was charged with filing a $20,000 claim for a dead cat that prosecutors allege he never owned. The man had been involved in a minor traffic accident and received $3,500 for chiropractic care, but two years later claimed the accident had also killed his cat, submitting photos that were later found on the Internet. He faces a year in jail if convicted.

It’s not a total loss; the insurance company said it could get him a deal on pet insurance.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1812, Gen. William Hull led U.S. forces into Canada during the War of 1812.

But Hull soon retreated to Detroit once he had laid in a supply of 222 aspirin and Tim Bits.

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