You can now create your own personal collection of butterflies without killing the beautiful insects. Fusing the traditional art of origami (folding of paper) with the study of butterflies, a new ...

Butterfly wings have been given make-overs by scientists who tweaked a “painting gene” to change their patterns and colours. The research has major implications for understanding how the so-called ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...