SCARY SPOT The owl butterfly, sporting some of the more eyelike spots on its wings, stars in a new wave of rigorous testing for the old saw that the spots resemble scary predator eyes. Cláudio ...

Co-discoverer Andrew Warren is hoping to raise at least $50,000 by auctioning off the rights to name the 4-inch "owl eye" butterfly, which lives in Sonora, a Mexican state bordering Arizona.

There's a big — 4-inch — "owl eye" butterfly that lives in Sonora in need of a name. And according to the scientific tradition, the discoverers have the say in naming it.