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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 |
+ | he ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. | ||
- | Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the marine creatures lurking | + | 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 has suggested that both men and women were among those sacrificed as well as children. A study published Wednesday |
- | While studying piranhas | + | The new analysis, based on ancient DNA from the remains of 64 people who archaeologists believe had been ritually sacrificed |
- | 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 | + | “There were two big moments |
- | “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 in biology at the University of Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil. The researchers hoped the pop culture reference would draw attention to the fish and efforts to protect biodiversity in the Amazon, Pereira added. | + | “We were thinking, influenced by traditional archaeology that we would find, a non-sex-biased burial or mostly girls,” he said. |
- | The eye-catching fish is not the only animal named for Tolkien’s Dark Lord. A genus of butterflies | + | “And |