A New Genera of Butterflies Has Been Named After the ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain

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A genus of orange and brown butterflies that had been excruciatingly hard to define and separate has been called Saurona after the Dark Lord antagonist from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Any old scientist can name a species—there are tens of millions out there that have needed a name. But naming a genus is […]

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