The delicate orange butterfly clay cracks apart, revealing its smooth texture and intricate details beneath the surface. Each fragment showcases vibrant shades of orange and fine craftsmanship ...

The first countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance found that the number of butterflies in the Lower 48 states has been falling on average 1.3% a year since the turn of the century ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...

Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an archaeological site in El Salvador. The five carved figurines are about 2,400 years old, and they may help shed new light on an ...

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most comprehensive tally of U.S. butterfly populations to date. Nick Haddad, a Michigan State University ecologist who co-wrote the ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The population of butterflies - the beautiful insects that play a vital role in pollination and the health of ecosystems - has fallen in the United States by more ...