The National Trust’s annual round up of the year shows the impacts of climate-fuelled extremes on landscapes and wildlife.

Despite the high stakes, the tiny caterpillar in the lab in Albuquerque, N.M., was not given a name. It’s the last known ...

The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

The community science initiative, known as the Western Monarch Count, is led by the Xerces Society, a conservation nonprofit ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

1,994 dogs representing 201 breeds will compete at the 2025 National Dog Show Presented by Purina, with the event set to air on Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 27 – at 12 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

Toastier fall weather might cause migrating monarch butterflies to wing it and change their flight plans, starting the countdown toward death. Eastern monarchs captured during their autumn migration ...

Researchers looked at the populations of 136 butterfly species for the study Getty A new study by Michigan State University found that butterflies have been decreasing rapidly in the Midwest U.S. The ...

Taking a walk in the Midwest today is a different experience than it was 30 years ago. That's because butterfly populations there have been in "precipitous decline," with all 136 species examined in a ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. Known for long-distance ...

A blue wave butterfly pauses between sips of nectar from a flower. (Gary Robinson photo) Recently voted into the top three butterfly gardens in the nation by readers of USA Today, Santa Barbara Museum ...