"I had been imaging butterfly wings, studying how they react ... at UC San Diego School of Medicine and co-leader of the Cancer Biology and Signaling Program at Moores Cancer Center, and Aida ...

A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain ... The study, published in Current Biology, investigates the neural foundations of behavioral innovation in Heliconius butterflies ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly ...

A new study published by the journal “Science” has found that butterfly populations have decreased up to 22 percent over the ...

A simple tweak in the nervous system can completely reshape the love life of male butterflies. Researchers found that a single neural change alters their attraction to specific wing colors, a crucial ...

North American butterfly species are facing severe declines, according to a new study published in Science, raising concerns ...

A simple neural change alters mating preferences in male butterflies, aiding rapid behavioral evolution, researchers report.

Tian’s childhood fascination with butterflies, inspired by their beauty as he watched them rest on flowers in his backyard, ignited an early passion for biology ... understudied role of miRNAs in ...

Butterflies and moths evolved a proboscis like the one pictured here long before humans invented drinking straws. However, both serve the same purpose: getting that last drop of sweet liquid from the ...

Monarch butterfly have arrived in Oklahoma – the first stop for the famous orange and black beauty migrating from Mexico, ...

More information: Genetic, developmental and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference, PLOS Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002989 ...

Fewer of them is just a tragic loss," Matt Forister, biology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and co-author of the study, told ABC News. Approximately 107 butterfly species declined by ...