Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

Fossilized moth wings that look blue in death would have been yellow-green in life, a new study finds, suggesting a colorful method of camouflage and warning. The moths probably used their colors some ...

What was blue, yellow and fuzzy all over? The answer, according to a new study on prehistoric color, is a 47-million-year-old moth. The brilliant hues, researchers say, may indicate that this group of ...

The peppered moth as it looked before the Industrial Revolution and also now that clean-air laws have improved pollution in the United Kingdom. (Olaf Leillinger via Wikipedia) (CN) – Moths that have ...

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The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

Triangular leaf senecio, Senecio triangularis, is common on the eastern slope of Cimarron Ridge in the San Juan Mountains, from 9,000 to over 10,000 feet. This year they grew to 5 feet tall with ...