A researcher said she named a new butterfly species after the 'Lord of the Rings' villain partly because spending 10 years on the study felt like the eye of Sauron looking at her

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A picture of one of the Saurona butterflies.
The museum says the black rings on the vivid orange wings are "reminiscent of the all-seeing Eye."

B. Huertas (c) Trustees Natural History Museum

California's Brutal Storms May Have Killed Over Half Its Monarch Butterflies

Gizmodo : Environment

California has been enduring a winter of wild weather, and it’s not just humans that have suffered for it. A new count of monarchs in the state turned up a disturbing low number of the endangered butterflies.

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