A Michigan House bill aims to designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly, highlighting its prevalence and beauty.

A Chinese research team has developed a single-step femtosecond laser 4D printing technology that enables rapid and precise micro-scale deformation of smart hydrogels. This innovation, inspired by ...

A giant swallowtail butterfly is large and stunning. Learn what what the caterpillars and adult butterflies look like and ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

He noticed edible butterflies being ignored by insectivorous birds and dragonflies because their wing coloring mimicked noxious or predatory species. The spicebush swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio ...

Many of the first signs of springtime are subtle. There are little shifts in the breeze as the sun begins to feel a bit warmer and remains in the sky a little bit longer each day. Birdsong increases ...

Food is a rainbow of feelings. It’s a walk down a nostalgic hallway lined with memories, that echo of laughter you thought you forgot, that shiver down your neck from the explosion of flavour ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Giant owl butterflies (Caligo idomeneus) have eye spots on their wings that look like the ...

This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they will attract a broader audience. The ...

Hummingbirds are small birds native to the Americas, and they largely form the Trochilidae family of avians. There are already hundreds of known species, but new ones are discovered every year. One of ...