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Scientists discover new species all the time and they have a penchant for naming them after famous characters. A species of fossil trilobite discovered in China in 2007 was called Geragnostus waldorfstatleri after Statler and Waldorf, the cantankerous duo that heckle the other Muppets from the box seats. Another trilobite of the genus was named after Han Solo. There is a Tasmanian tube-dwelling spider named Ariadna gonzo after The Great Gonzo, the Muppets' long-nosed, passionate, yet hopeless, stuntman. Kermit the Frog has been honoured with an entire genus. Kermitops is an extinct genus of amphibian whose fossil was discovered in Texas in 1984. As yet only one species is known, Kermitops gratus, but if further relatives are discovered they will bear the name. Another species of frog was named Hensonbatrachus kermiti in 2015.

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Kathryn Flett of Race Across The World on BBC iPlayer this week. Five couples are competing for £20,000 by racing each other across Canada with no cell phones and a tiny budget equal to the flight costs, which they are not able to afford.

DEBORAH ROSS: As we'd say, Queen Charlotte is an origins tale, we'd say, and although the first series of Bridgerton was great and sexy, and the second was Mills & Boon-ish and not so sexy, this is more sexy, but it's more than that, as it continues to be developed late in the six episodes - it's more sexy. At the end, I cried, but I am not ashamed to admit it. Except that I am. A little.