A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge ...

Project Psyche has sequenced 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes, providing unprecedented tools for studying evolution, ...

(CNN) — The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine where the winged insects originated when they first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago. During the age of ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A butterfly's wing is a uniquely visual exhibition, not only of the aesthetics of nature, but of the machinery of evolution. Biologists have long appreciated that butterfly wing ...

Colorful Heliconius butterflies have a wide variety of wing patterns and an amazing ability to mimic the appearance of other butterfly species. They also split into many species during a short ...

A deep dive into the genetics of butterflies offers new clues as to how these pollinators shared DNA across generations. Nate Edelman, a graduate student at Harvard University and an author on the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring lengthy expeditions, sparking rivalries and prompting some collectors to ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...