The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

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Last September the team collected more adults from seven of the 10 sites and found the butterfly population included more than twice as many members with abnormalities as in May: 28.1 percent ...

OK, so maybe it's a bit of a deformed butterfly, but the image of what is popularly known as the Twin Jet Nebula captured by the ever so reliable Hubble Space Telescope is just as beautiful, ...

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This is the amazing moment a wildlife volunteer was able to save the life of a fragile butterfly - by carrying out an intricate wing transplant.Katie VanBlaricum, 36, noticed a monarch butterfly with ...