Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, transformation, hope, and freedom. They play important roles in the ecosystem as ...

Cal Academy of Sciences and The Presidio join conservation efforts to bring blue butterflies back to San Francisco coast. Genetic sequencing links Silvery blue butterflies to extinct Xerces blue. From ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of ...

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

The Atlas blue butterfly (Polyommatus atlantica), which is native to Morocco and Algeria, is estimated to have about seven times as many chromosomes as most other butterflies and nearly 10 times as ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis. AMISTAD, a new collections-based research ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals in the world. This insect ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

Of the two forms of this species, the summer form (seen here) is a candidate for the most beautiful of our local butterflies. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON As we begin the month of July, we find ...