Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

Researchers believe this may be an isolated population from an ancestor species that went extinct everywhere else.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

Discover the Indianapolis Zoo's butterfly exhibit, featuring hundreds of species in a tropical environment. Admission included with zoo tickets.

A detailed vector illustration of the Blue Morpho butterfly life cycle. This educational diagram includes realistic representations of each stage: egg, caterpillar , chrysalis , and adult butterfly.

Gayle Anderson reports the Butterfly Pavilion takes flight at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) for the spring and summer months. Visitors can walk among hundreds of ...

Morpho butterflies carry structures that can manipulate light in their wings. The researchers discovered that when a biopsy was placed on a Morpho butterfly wing and viewed with a standard microscope, ...

Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer ...

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a unique way to analyze the extent of fibrosis using butterfly wings.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found an unusual ally in the quest to make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more accessible worldwide: the Morpho butterfly. Known ...

UC San Diego researchers are using the light-manipulating micro- and nanostructures on Morpho butterfly wings to assess the level of fibrosis in cancer biopsy samples. Researchers at the ...