It's a beautiful thing that we're still discovering things about our world. While some people might think the age of exploration might be over, researchers and scientists are still uncovering new species and landmasses every year.
Well, Malaysian scientists have come across a new water beetle and they've decided to name it after Titanic actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
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While he might have picked up a fair few awards for acting over the years, being immortalised as a tiny black insect would be pretty cool. The three millimetre long beetle, found in Borneo's Maliau Basin, will now forever be known as Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi.
The name was proposed during a vote at a ceremony at the end of the trip, which included people from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and a Dutch firm, Taxon Expeditions, which brings citizens along to scientific trips to help in the research process.
Taxon Expeditions' Iva Njunjić said: "In this case, we didn't name the beetle because it looks like Leonardo DiCaprio. We wanted to highlight that even the smallest creature is important, such as this tiny beetle that nobody knew about before now."
While Leo hasn't said anything on the matter, he has changed his Facebook profile picture to an image of his beetle.
It's just another feather in the actor's hat for all his environmental work he's done since launching the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation shortly after Titanic. The group helps promote environmental awareness and tackles some of the biggest issues of our era.
Through a fine art auction in 2013 he managed to raise $40 million - which became the world's highest grossing environmental charity event ever.
Over the years, his foundation has helped protect wildlife and the rights of Native Americans, advocated for Indonesia to stop its 'slash-and-burn' forest clearing methods for the palm oil industry and campaigned for tigers in Russia.
When he accepted his Academy Award for Best Actor in The Revenant, he told the audience and the world: "Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.
"We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this.
"For our children's children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed."
No doubt, this beetle name will make Leo smile.
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