Nine years after throwing his support behind an initiative aimed at protecting sharks and their habitats, Paul Allen has a namesake shark. Sphyrna alleni is a new hammerhead shark species named ...

led to the discovery of a new species of hammerhead shark since named for the late Paul G. Allen, a philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder. Chapman collected tissue samples from bonnethead sharks ...

Sphyrna alleni is a new hammerhead shark species named for the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, according to a news release Monday from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.