How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

From a hummingbird beating its wings 70 times a second, to a butterfly jetting diagonally against the wind, us landlocked creatures get to delight in it all. For Outside/In, I’m Marina Henke.

Claudia Scanlon, 21, from Dublin, Ireland has a severe form of epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic disorder that causes her skin to blister and tear easily. Her condition is progressive, leaving ...

In this July 2024 photo, U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist Olivia Curtis points out plants that the federally protected Mount Charleston blue butterfly favors for food, including the Clokey ...

A monarch butterfly that flew in the window of Aaron Peck’s high school classroom in Oxnard, California, on Oct. 17. The insect had been tagged by a researcher in Southern Arizona, roughly 535 ...

Asian needle ants, an invasive species making news around the country, were found in Providence in 2015, but there's no sign they ever spread.

Asian needle ants, an invasive species making news around the country, were found in Providence in 2015, but there's no sign they ever spread.

Jannique Mulder-Slater is a 16-year-old aspiring entomologist from Bocabec, N.B., who found three rare cecropia moths in her neighbourhood. After one of the moths laid eggs, Mulder-Slater decided ...

Take a close look at the body of a butterfly and you’ll see three sections: a head, a middle area called the thorax, and an abdomen. A butterfly has three legs on each side of its middle section, or ...