The San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Butterfly Jungle exhibit lets visitors get up close and personal with winged wonders.

Inspired by the way that the Morpho butterfly creates color, researchers developed colorful cooling films that don’t absorb light and thus don’t heat up.

The blue morpho is often one of the species featured in Sensational Butterflies, an exhibition of live insects in the Museum’s tropical butterfly house. Butterfly expert Luke Brown says the species is ...

Vacationers flock to Aruba for its spectacular beaches, but a visit to a shady farm with hundreds of colorful butterflies can ...

When our first batch of blue morpho butterflies began to emerge from their chrysalises in 2015, we were there to catch the process on film. Each individual butterfly takes only one or two minutes to ...

Scientists developed new solar panels using morpho butterflies’ blue iridescent colouring characteristics. Research conducted by Fraunhofer ISE scientists successfully reproduced 3D photonic elements ...

The researchers drew inspiration from the mechanism by which Morpho butterflies develop their wing colors, which some describe as the most beautiful in the world. The scientists on the team set ...