Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, transformation, hope, and freedom. They play important roles in the ecosystem as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thereus lomalarga© "Thereus lomalarga" by Kai Squires is licensed under BY 4.0. Experts must revisit habitat locations for species ...

A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling.

person looking at butterfly in garden with flowers - Katrin_timoff/Getty Images There's nothing quite like the wildlife that flocks to your garden during the warmer months of the year. Those melodic ...

A type of butterfly species was recently recorded for the first time in Ohio.The Ohio Division of Wildlife says the cassius blue (Leptotes cassius) was recorded in Ohio in October.Wildlife officials ...

Researchers looked at the populations of 136 butterfly species for the study Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers entertainment and human interest ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to list the Jamaican kite swallowtail as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal follows a 2021 lawsuit by the Center ...

The Fender's blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 news ...

Hundreds of butterfly species across the American West are vanishing as the region becomes hotter, drier and more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a study released Thursday.

Thereus lomalarga© "Thereus lomalarga" by Kai Squires is licensed under BY 4.0. In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a ...