[sprice]

A Far Side comic led to the naming of a part of the Stegosaurus' tail.

"Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

[davidw]

Yeah I think that's somehow cooler than the species. There are a lot of obscure species that get named for someone, but being the guy who named something that every kid is familiar with... that's pretty cool! (And I came here to post about that too).

[dmix]

This one is a goodie https://shoeuntied.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fs16.jpg

[heavyset_go]

There is at least one species named as an homage to Gary Larson, too.