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The Game of Thrones fantasy world is now dictating science. Two new ant species discovered in New Guinea have been named after two of Daenerys Targaryan’s dragons. Traditionally, scientists use weird (often boring) Latin words for new species. This time, researchers dubbed two new Pheidole — a widespread ant genus — Drogon and Viserion. Yup, those are two of Mhysa’s scary-ass dragons on Game of Thrones. The cause for this new naming scheme were the ant’s spikes. Scientists couldn’t help but notice they looked very dragon-like: The group is most readily identified by the minor worker caste, which has extremely…

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