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China Daily | Updated: 2015-07-17 07:53

Australia

New jellyfish named after boy

An Australian schoolboy who discovered a new species of jellyfish in a Queensland canal has had the tentacled creature named in his honor, scientists said. Saxon Thomas was nine when he spotted a small, boxlike jellyfish while fishing with a friend in 2013. Thinking it unusual, he and his father sent it to Queensland Museum.

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