From a predator’s perspective, these features create an illusion of a second head at the rear of the butterfly. If the attack ...

Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned ...

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these characteristics work to deflect predators away from the animal's head. Many ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...

How a 'flipped' gene helped butterflies evolve mimicry. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 11 / 171107113214.htm. University of Chicago Medical Center.

Knowing evolutionary boundaries helps scientists forecast how wildlife will respond to our warming planet — and whether there ...

Take the blue moon butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina).In 2001, Emily Dyson and Greg Hurst were studying this stunningly beautiful insect on the Samoan islands of Savaii and Upolu when they noticed ...

How a 'flipped' gene helped butterflies evolve mimicry A rare genetic inversion 2 million years ago helped Asian swallowtail butterflies develop different wing patterns to disguise themselves from ...

MONTEIRO: It seems to be incredibly easy to evolve these new colors in butterflies. BICHELL: So should this modest, brown butterfly species need to adapt, it has a powerful color technology in its ...

UB biologists who study butterfly wing patterns have inserted into an African butterfly a marker gene from a jellyfish species, resulting in the first transgenic butterflies that express DNA from ...

What happens to female butterflies when there are no males around? They evolve, according to new research. A team of Kenyan, German, and British scientists found that two butterfly subspecies in ...