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Thanks to one of his famous lines in 'Indiana Jones', Harrison Ford has long been linked to snakes, and now that link will be official! A group of researchers that discovered a new type of snake in Peru and actually named the species after the actor.

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00:00 Thanks to one of his famous lines in Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford has long been linked

00:09 to snakes.

00:10 And now that link will be official.

00:12 A group of researchers discovered a new type of snake in Peru and actually named the species

00:17 after the actor.

00:19 The species is described as a type of camouflaged slender snake that is pale yellowish-brown

00:24 with scattered black blotches and measures 16 inches long.

00:28 For researchers, they named the snake after Ford to honor his decades-long environmental

00:33 advocacy.

00:34 But this isn't the first time the actor's name has been linked to a species.

00:38 Ford also inspired the name of an ant and a spider.

00:42 The actor said, "These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones

00:46 that terrify children.

00:47 I don't understand.

00:48 I spend my free time cross-stitching.

00:50 I sing lullabies to my basil plants so they don't fear the night."

00:54 In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling.

00:56 It's a reminder that there's still so much to learn about our wild world.

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