Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...

Taylor founded a nonprofit called Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas 30 years ago, and so far it's helped tag more than two million of them. Anderson Cooper: How do you tag a butterfly that ...

Monarch butterflies are the most recognizable butterflies in the world. With their brightly colored orange and black wings, ...

If there is no bird more American than the eagle, there is no butterfly more American than the monarch. Breathtaking and resilient, the monarch butterfly completes one of the most astounding ...

But for decades, illegal logging threatened the butterfly's roosting spots, which once covered as much as 45 acres. It's now down to four and a half. The population of monarch butterflies in ...

Journey North uses volunteer-submitted data to track the migration. They were recently spotted near Toledo, just south of the ...

Monarch butterflies are a "canary in the coal mine." They are an indicator of things to come if we don't protect the delicate species.

The U.S. moved to add the monarch butterfly to the endangered species list. The U.S. could soon push to get rid of daylight saving time. And now … the FBI says you should switch to encrypted ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed the monarch butterfly as a threatened species, with loss of habitat and exposure to chemicals among the hazards it faces. Before the ...

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...