If you're a fan of Lord of the Rings, you may have heard of its arch villain Sauron. Well, now a new butterfly species with eye-like spots on its orange wings has been named after the evil entity. It's called the saurona triangula butterfly, and a team of international scientists identified two species of the butterfly and say there are likely more out there. It's also not the first time scientists have named a new species of butterfly or insect after a celebrity or fictional character. The aleiodes gaga is named after — you guessed it — Lady Gaga, and the aleiodes shakirae is named after Shakira because of the way it twists its abdomen.
MARK ZUCKERBERG: JIU JITSU CHAMPION
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won a gold and silver medal on Saturday at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu championship. The CEO shared photos from a tournament in Redwood City, California on his Instagram page. He said it was his first time competing in a jiu-jitsu tournament. Zuckerberg reportedly started training during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of George Floyd's murder, is expected to survive after being stabbed by another inmate in prison.
The outbreak that began in early 2022 has been much less severe this year as fewer cases of the virus are being found among the wild birds that spread it, but there have still been more than 8 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease.
Police say three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot and injured near the University of Vermont campus.
