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From Grand Line to Forest Floor: How a New Beetle Genus Honors Anime Icon Monkey D. Luffy

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August 4, 2026
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Introduction In the vast and imaginative world of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, the rubber-bodied pirate Monkey D. Luffy traverses treacherous seas, battles formidable emperors, and stretches his physical form into increasingly impossible, gravity-defying…