The new marine species from Papua New Guinea has a "distinctive" characteristic found in none of the other 134 related ...

If this new species of catfish looks familiar, don’t be surprised—Peckoltia greedoi is named after Star Wars bounty hunter Greedo. Researchers discovered the new species of catfish in 1998 in ...

AUBURN, Ala., March 21 (UPI) --Researchers named a South American catfish species based on its resemblance to an alien bounty hunter from the original Star Wars film.

P. greedoi, though, is not the first fish species Armbruster's described. He's done more than 40 of them, honoring friends and colleagues as he assigned scientific names.

Biological sciences professor Jonathan Armbruster, who discovered the fish while he was working with a research team along the Gurupi River in Brazil, named it after the "Star Wars" character, Greedo.

Lucasfilm has created countless alien species over the years for Star Wars. Here's the story of how 25 of those species evolved over time. ... but George Lucas favored the fish-like Ackbar.

An Auburn University biological sciences professor recently paid homage to the "Star Wars" movie series by naming a previously unknown species of catfish after his favorite character Greedo ...

As the Star Wars faithful remember, Greedo is the bounty hunter who tries hustling Han Solo in the Mos Eisly cantina. While the catfish was officially discovered in 1998, it took scientists years ...

For Armbruster, the connection gave the new catfish a sentimental value in addition to its scientific one. "As a 7-year-old kid, I watched Star Wars in the theater and it was a life-changing ...