New Triassic horseshoe crab named after Darth Vader

[Halichoeres]

Meet Vaderlimulus tricki, the first Triassic xiphosurid from North America: https://www.livescience.com/61112-darth-vader-horseshoe-crab.html



I guess since it was preserved in dark-colored matrix and has swept-back edges.

Paper: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2017/00000286/00000003/art00002;jsessionid=2obd4prs8u0o4.x-ic-live-02

[Nanuqsaurus]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[CityRaptor]

The Force is strong with this one.

Also:
Vaderlimulus: Triops never told you what happened to your father.
Mesolimulus: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Vaderlimulus: No. I am your father.
Mesolimulus: No...no. That's not true. That's impossible!
Vaderlimulus: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Mesolimulus: Noooo! Nooooo!

[Lanthanotus]

 

[MLMjp]

Just when you though that Star Wars was every-freaking-where, this comes. 

[Loon]

And here I was thinking Annie hated sand. Eh, wake me up when they name something after Jar Jar or Watto.

[Ravonium]

At least they haven't used a Star Wars character's name for a benthic trilobite again.

[Faelrin]

Now that's something I wouldn't have expected to see. Neat.

[ZoPteryx]

Does this mean Vader's blood was blue?  Sorry, best Star Wars related joke I could come up with.    Very interesting find!

[CityRaptor]

Just when you though that Star Wars was every-freaking-where, this comes. 

Well, it's nothing new:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/83162/17-species-named-after-star-wars-characters

Yep, naming something after Darth Vader is not that original.

Also since they named things after Solo and Greedo: Han Solo evolved first!