Building on prior investigation into the biological mechanisms through which monarch butterflies are able to migrate up to 2,000 miles from eastern North America to a particular forest in Mexico each ...

One of the most popular and recognizable insects is at risk of extinction, according to a global organization focused on conservation and sustainability. The International Union for Conservation of ...

Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld ...

If you sat down to make a list of animals that can bite, which ones would you include? Your list would likely contain dogs, cats, foxes, bears, and other mammals. If you included insects on your list, ...

With so many creatures facing extinction, it's heartening to read of the Large Blue butterfly's resurgence. One of six members of the Maculinea family, it was once found throughout England but had ...

Here's a dangerous, crazy thought from an otherwise sober (and very eminent) biologist, Bernd Heinrich. He's thinking about moths and butterflies, and how they radically change shape as they grow, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — In the unlikely setting of the world’s most populated military installation, amid all the regimented chaos, you’ll find the Endangered Species Act at work. There, as a ...

California possesses serpentine grasslands, oak forests, vernal pools and a variety of other unique habitats on its coast, mountains, rivers, lakes and deserts. These habitats support an incredible ...

A new menagerie of animal-inspired robotics has been unveiled by the researchers at Festo. One flies like a butterfly, another works in groups like ants and the third grips objects like a chameleon's ...

The Nature Conservancy has named three of "nature's most horrifying creatures" just in time for Halloween Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...