As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, ...

Wall brown butterflies adapt quickly through evolution as the climate warms and they shift northward. They grow faster and ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito ...

Researchers from the National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS) have found that butterflies that have evolved to make use of mimicry evolve faster than the species that don’t make use of mimicry.

Observing the story of this butterfly’s survival in a changing world has been a researcher of insect behaviour, Mike Singer, and a researcher of climate-change impacts on nature, Camille Parmesan.

Butterflies evolve these markings to intimidate predators by making them think that they are looking at the eyes of a more dangerous animal, or by encouraging an attacker to focus on a part of the ...