When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim.

The tiny traveler underwent a wild new surgery to receive a replacement wing from a similarly sized dead butterfly at Sweetbriar Nature Center, footage shows.

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a wing transplant gave it a second chance to fly ...

The one easy part was that butterfly's have no nerve endings in their upper wings. There are no blood vessels either.

When we write about insects, we’re not just reporting on science. We’re inviting people to slow down, to observe and to ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

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It's not hard to imagine cold, gray winter days in Missoula. But imagine this kind of winter day: It's 10 degrees outside, roads and sidewalks are ice covered, and the Hellgate wind is howling. You ...

The "little orange cat inspecting a little orange butterfly on a little orange flower," as commenter @nnylecidnac put it, is worth watching again and again. Some viewers even immortalized the moment ...