Lead Sentence: 1/6th of a foot

Herpetologist Robert Drewes will forever be remembered for his two-inch Phallus.

That’s the winner in this week’s Lead Sentence of the Day competition. It begins a report by Brendan Borrell in the 60-Second Science Blog. The next few sentences are:

In the upcoming issue of the journal Mycologia, scientists describe a new species of stinkhorn fungus from Africa, which they christened Phallus drewesii in honor of their expedition leader.

“I am utterly delighted,” Drewes told the San Jose Mercury News, “The funny thing is that it is the second smallest known mushroom in this genus and it grows sideways, almost limp.”

(Thanks to investigator William J. Maloney for bringing this to our attention.)