Left: A butterfly from the Saurona group of butterflies.(B.Huertas (c) Trustees Natural History Museum); right, a depiction of the Eye of Sauron from "Lord of the Rings."(From left: B. Huertas (c) Trustees Natural History Museum; iStock)Scientists have named a new group of butterflies with dark eye-shaped patterns on their orange wings after Sauron, the omnipresent evil lord in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" novels - what the Natural History Museum in London called an "homage to an eye-conic villain."
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