A species of mushroom was named after Spongebob Squarepants.
A new species of mushroom has the name Spongiforma squarepantsii. Strangely enough, this new species isn’t the only mushroom in the Spongiforma genus. Even though S. squarepantsii is a fungus, not a sponge, the researchers were inspired to name it after Spongebob because it looks like a sea sponge.
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