Science history: Dian Fossey found murdered, after decades protecting gorillas that she loved — Dec. 27, 1985 Florida’s ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, ...

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

Insects and the plants they depend on are migrating in response to climate change, but not always in the same way.

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 ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

President Donald Trump's administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch ...

For centuries, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North America, guided by instincts that scientists ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

California’s monarch butterflies get a new gadget. New tech is allowing researchers to monitor California’s monarch ...

In late 2024, a tagged monarch named Lionel migrated from New Jersey to Florida, logging thousands of detections along the ...