Study: Butterflies and Moths Have Reused Same Genetic Toolkit for 120 Million Years
A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution…
Butterfly Completes Its Entire Metamorphosis While Orbiting Earth on Chinese Experiment
The arthropod astronaut during his mission. Credit: Chongqing University On December 13, a rocket rose from the Jiuquan…
Kids at tiny school work to save extremely rare ‘flying jewel’ purple copper butterfly
Kids at a tiny regional school are on a mission to save one of Australia’s extremely rare butterflies.…
Top new species from 2025
Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient…
Atlas Blue Butterfly Has 229 Pairs of Chromosomes, Scientists Find
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome…