In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a long-running identification problem involving neotropical hairstreak butterflies. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The zebra swallowtail was common in southwestern Ontario, around Windsor in the early 1900s. Development and cutting down woods in ...

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

WASHINGTON— Two conservation groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety, today sued the U.S. Fish ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - In the unlikely setting of the world's most populated military installation, amid all the regimented chaos, you'll find the Endangered Species Act at work. There, as a 400-pound ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eliza Grames, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...

'Preserving butterflies is not just about preserving beauty and color, but about the stability and health of ecosystems on which we all depend,' says ecologist Dotan Rotem The post A third of Israel’s ...

Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild to help the Brown ...