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- | Newly discovered Amazon fish species is named after ‘The Lord of the Rings’ villain for its odd pattern | + | Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding |
- | Thousands | + | he ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds |
- | While studying piranhas | + | A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has stuck in the contemporary imagination and become hard to dislodge even as more recent research |
- | Besides its odd pearly whites, the newfound species has striking orange and black markings — including a bold vertical black bar stretching across its flank — that the researchers say resemble the fiery eye symbol for the villain Sauron from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” book and film series. The marks inspired | + | The new analysis, based on ancient DNA from the remains |
- | “Me and the coauthors thought (the name) would be a nice idea — it really looks like the Sauron’s eye,” said study coauthor Victória Pereira, a graduate student | + | “There were two big moments of surprise here,” said lead study author Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher |
- | The eye-catching fish is not the only animal named for Tolkien’s Dark Lord. A genus of butterflies | + | “We were thinking, influenced by traditional archaeology that we would find, a non-sex-biased burial or mostly girls,” he said. |
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