Thomas Mulligan describes how the flap of a butterfly’s wings could hypothetically trigger a massive hurricane.

Marina Henke: With insects, wings diversify even more. That’s because when you're really tiny, the viscosity of the air ...

How a career on Broadway led to 'Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond,' a comprehensive field guide for the region.

Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white. “This one is federally endangered. We are trying to recover its populations,” Henry said.

A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales, like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — 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.

What’s the difference between an insect and a bug? Who buzzes in the grass? And what does a ladybug have to do with a lady?

A new 10-foot-tall poppy and butterfly wind-activated sculpture created by a group of Cal Poly engineering students was ...

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