Riccardo stared at the sketchpad in front of him, his mind blank, seeming lost in a desert place. He sighed in exasperation and, putting down his pencil, ...

One year ago, a team of earnest conservationists released a few dozen silvery blue butterflies at the Presidio, hoping they ...

For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.

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After what felt like endless days of waking to rain pummeling the house, I finally woke in the darkness of an April dawn to ...

Then the second mortifying incident culminated in the prized butterflies either flying or dying - not quite the moment Jagger had hoped for as he read the poem. "When Mick opened the boxes ...

The ancestor of butterflies was a nocturnal moth that became day-flying here, 101.4 million years ago. For Kawahara, the eight-year-long study was intensely personal, because he found it ...

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A group of scientists and volunteers released seven silvery blue butterflies in San Francisco’s Presidio on Tuesday in an effort to add a hint of new life to a biodiversity-constrained world. The ...