Sir David Attenborough is the famed British naturalist. Researchers from the Yale University and universities in England named shrimp fossil in the honour of Mr. Attenborough. The crustacean was identified from a 430-million-year-old imprint in volcanic ash.
The fossil is named Cascolus ravitis. The first half of the name, Cascolus , is derived from Latin words that are equivalent to the Old English words comprising the name Attenborough.
The second, ravitis , is derived from the Roman name for Leicester, in a nod to the University of Leicester campus where Mr. Attenborough grew up while his father served as a university administrator.