Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans. For a few years we thought bats were to thank for the existence of butterflies. The idea was that the evolution of ...

Scientists have sequenced the Atlas blue butterfly, confirming it has 229 chromosome pairs—the most of any animal. The ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Tilte page verso. Selected papers presented at the international meeting titled "Integrative Approach to Understanding the Diversity of ...

Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

An international team in South America has confirmed six new species of glasswing butterflies. This discovery may reshape scientists’ understanding of butterfly taxonomy and how diversification plays ...