The Fender's blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 news ...
6:35 p.m. Jan. 26, 2023: A previous version of this story said the Palos Verdes conservancy releases captive-reared butterflies. A consortium of agencies, including America’s Teaching Zoo at Moorpark ...
The Fender’s blue butterfly, found only in the Willamette Valley, is moving off the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the butterfly will be reclassified as ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An intrepid group of butterflies is about to help turn the clock back nearly a century in San Francisco's Presidio. Biologist Durrell Kapan, Ph.D. of the California Academy of ...
SAN FRANCISCO — More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly called Xerces blue that once fluttered among San Francisco’s coastal dunes went extinct as stately homes, museums and parks ate up its ...
The California Academy of Sciences used genetic testing to identify a blue butterfly species similar to the Xerces species that went extinct and disappeared from the San Francisco coastline. Through ...
The first insectile casualty of human activity in the United States was recorded around 80 years ago, new research has confirmed. The insect, the Xerces blue butterfly, died out in the mid-20th ...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Atlas blue butterfly for the first time and confirmed it holds the highest chromosome number among multicellular animals. The butterfly lives in the ...
Cal Academy of Sciences and The Presidio join conservation efforts to bring blue butterflies back to San Francisco coast. Genetic sequencing links Silvery blue butterflies to extinct Xerces blue. From ...
A blue-purple member of the Plectranthus genus grows out in nature. - Sky Sailom Sangdad/Shutterstock Butterflies are more than just sets of pretty patterned wings and an easy at-home science project ...
The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...
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