Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld ...

One of the most popular and recognizable insects is at risk of extinction, according to a global organization focused on conservation and sustainability. The International Union for Conservation of ...

With so many creatures facing extinction, it's heartening to read of the Large Blue butterfly's resurgence. One of six members of the Maculinea family, it was once found throughout England but had ...

Here's a dangerous, crazy thought from an otherwise sober (and very eminent) biologist, Bernd Heinrich. He's thinking about moths and butterflies, and how they radically change shape as they grow, ...

California possesses serpentine grasslands, oak forests, vernal pools and a variety of other unique habitats on its coast, mountains, rivers, lakes and deserts. These habitats support an incredible ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

A new menagerie of animal-inspired robotics has been unveiled by the researchers at Festo. One flies like a butterfly, another works in groups like ants and the third grips objects like a chameleon's ...