Among the newly named species are the Rainbow spider, Dragon Fist spider, and Excuse spider, all titles of beloved songs by Jay Chou. The Starry Mood spider, for instance, is named after a hit love ...

BEIJING – A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular Mandopop musician Jay Chou. Professor Mi Xiaoqi of Tongren University in China’s south-western Guizhou province ...

A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular “Mandopop” musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, listed ...

A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular Mandopop musician Jay Chou. Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, listed the ...

One of the arachnids -- the 3.5-millimetre long Cyclosa xingqing sp. nov. or "Starry Mood spider" -- is named after a hit love song from Chou's debut album Jay released in 2000. (Representational ...

Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province, listed the newly discovered arachnids in a paper published in the academic journal Zoological Research: Diversity ...

A Chinese scientist named 16 new spider species after Jay Chou's songs, highlighting the connection between science and pop culture. The research paper in Zoological Research went viral, with a ...

A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular Mandopop musician Jay Chou (pic). Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, ...