8 Times Sir David Attenborough Was A Total Badass

6. When He Had 11 Goddamn Species Named After Him

Attenborough is not only one of the greatest broadcasters ever to have walked the earth (and that's a fact), but his contributions to the study of the natural world have been so great that he has a whole menagerie of animals named after him

These include the Mesozoic reptile Attenborosaurus conybeari, the Attenborough's goblin spider Prethopalpus attenboroughi, and one of the world's largest carnivorous plants Nepenthes attenboroughii - a huge, pitchered rat-eating plant.

Incidentally, the rat is the only type of animal the Attenborough doesn't like, so no wonder he lent his name to a plant that eats them for breakfast.

The full list of plants and animals named after our David can be found on his extensive Wikipedia page (which is well worth a read anyway).