Now, we’re begging you to stop releasing pet goldfish into local waterways. The seemingly benign and tiny household pets can grow to gargantuan sizes, like the ones the United States Fish ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in the United States have dropped by almost a quarter in the last two decades, according to a new analysis published ...

New research shows butterfly populations have fallen dramatically over the past two decades, but there’s a lot you can do to help these fluttering flower-lovers, even if all you’ve got is a ...

And now you care echoes previous works, notably Helena & El Pescador, a 2000 exhibit at Denmark's Trapholt Museum that featured 10 blenders filled with water and goldfish. In an interactive ...

The first countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance found that the number of butterflies in the Lower 48 states has been falling on average 1.3% a year since the turn of the century ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...

US butterfly populations have declined by 22% since 2000, with 114 species showing significant drops. A study published in Science found insecticides, climate change, and habitat loss are driving ...

A massive "megalodon" of a goldfish caught in Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, is a good reminder of why people shouldn't release their pets into the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says.

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...

A fluttering butterfly makes most people smile with delight — a reaction that makes them special among insects. Some people love butterflies so much that, like birders, they look for and count ...

the Hermes copper butterfly native to Southern California and the tailed orange butterfly fluttering near the U.S.-Mexico border. Over 100 species have declined by more than 50 percent.