Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned ...

The Charles T. Church Nature Preserve, or Shu Swamp Preserve, can only be found by driving past a fenced patch of grass off ...

A serene camping trip to a pristine Maine lake leads to the perfect sighting of the elusive northern pearly-eye butterfly in ...

Many wild and interesting bugs call Texas home. From our state insect (the monarch butterfly!) to Texas red-headed centipedes ...

All the adoptable cats and dogs at Iredell County Animal Services have been spayed or neutered and are looking for their ...

Summer is a busy time for our wild creatures. My most amazing nature sighting this past week was right in my own front garden. A row of lavender plants is covered in bumblebees! There are too many to ...

The Mitchell’s satyr butterfly is the only butterfly in Virginia that’s federally listed as endangered, and scientists are working to preserve the few meadows where these elusive butterflies still ...

The species was named after the late Fontje Kaligis, a professor at Sam Ratulangi University who “initiated our Indonesian co-operation,” researchers said. The second new species, Phyllidia ovata, was ...

There are nearly 20,000 butterfly species divided into six families. They are spread across every continent except for ...

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

Mammal-wise, the Volunteer State is home to black bears, white-tailed deer, and groundhogs ... It’s characterized by long (up to 2 inches wide) membranous wings that coalesce in watercolor-like ...

Scientists caught soft brown bat with strong claws in net trap in forests and discovered an elusive new species: Himalayan long-tailed Myotis, study said.