An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late ...

An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late ...
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Fri Nov 13, 12:16 PM ET

An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late conservation star Steve Irwin, seen here in 2006, by naming a rare species of snail "crikey steveirwini".

(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner)

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