A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, United States, reveals a surprising diversity of large lizards at the pinnacle of the age of dinosaurs. Named for the goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” the new species Bolg amondol also illuminates the sometimes-murky path that life traveled between ancient continents.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota found transmission of viruses between different bee species did not lead to the formation of new virus variants. 

Results of the study, published in Communications Biology, may be a rare bit of good news for bee pollinators, which have been in decline for over 25 years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.