The blind cave beetle was named after Hitler

Slovenia's unluckiest animal is probably the blind cave beetle, Anophthalmus hitleri. The unfortunate beetle was named after Adolf Hitler by a German collector who found it in the 1930s. And as if that wasn’t enough, the notorious name has continued to cause problems for the insect to this day. Neo-nazi collectors have poached the beetle because of its name. Collectors of Nazi memorabilia have occasionally paid hundreds of euros for the beetle. Because the beetle only lives in about five caves in Slovenia, it counts as a vulnerable species. At least the beetle doesn’t know what its given name is. We can only hope that people will do it a favor and leave it be.