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American scientist, journalist, television host, photographer and explorer
Phil Torres
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American scientist, journalist, television host, photographer and explorer
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Male
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17 April 1986(Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA)
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Cornell University
Rice University
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Phil Torres is a scientist, journalist, and explorer.
Career
Torres helped discover over 40 new species by the age of 20 during scientific expeditions in Mongolia and Venezuela. One of his most-publicized discoveries was a spider that constructs a fake, larger spider in its web using silk, leaves, and dead insects. This is the only known animal (besides humans) that creates another animal from scratch and was Wired Science's number-two story of the year in 2012.
Personal life
He is the younger brother of Eve Torres, a former WWE Divas Champion. They are of Nicaraguan, German and Swedish descent.