Indiana Jones faced a lot of difficult challenges during his career as an adventuring archaeologists, from outrunning rolling boulders to frequently fighting Nazis. However, whenever a snake reared its head, that was enough to send Indy into a panic, as he feared those reptiles just as much as his father feared rats. So you have to love the irony of a snake species being named after his actor, and Harrison Ford has now reacted to the big news that Indy would surely hate.
As reported by the scientific journal Salamandra, a type of slender snake that was discovered in Peru’s Andes Mountain back in May 2022, when researchers found one of the males hanging out in the sun. This species has now been classified as Tachymenoides harrisonfordi, and its physical attributes include being 16 inches long, colored yellowish-brown with scattered black blotches, and having a black belly and a vertical streak over his copper-colored eye. When asked for comment from EW, Ford started by joking about how this is the latest unsettling animal to be named after him, then delivered a heartfelt statement about the natural world:
