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

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 ...

Although every species on the planet somehow plays a role in maintaining the ecosystem, there are some species whose absence ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

McKay also highlighted native plants and their role in ecosystems. Native plants and animals rely on each other, and when one ...

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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 International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the migratory insect on its endangered species list Thursday. The migratory monarch butterfly, a North American icon with a continent-spanning ...

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 ...

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Monarch butterflies have experienced a breathtaking decline in the past 20 years, going from a billion strong in 1996 to roughly 30 million today because of habitat destruction. On Monday, the U.S.

Are animals shaking up the rules of hairstyling? That’s what it seems like, judging from hairstyling trends of these past few weeks that draw inspiration from nature, if not from an actual bestiary.