Lontra Weiri

The Otter One..

Now he's never going to shave:

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/deadhead-paleontologist-names-newly-di...

The Grateful Dead legacy works in many ways. For one woman, The Dead inspired a career in paleontology, and, as a result, a newly-discovered species of extinct otter is now named Lontra weiri.

SFGate recently ran a feature highlighting Kari Prassack, a US National Park Service paleontologist who recognized that a mis-labeled jawbone fossil actually belonged to a unique species of otter. When other scientists confirmed the discovery, Prassack – a Deadhead – named the new species after Bob Weir. You can see the publication in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology here...