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.

It is thought that the colour helps the males to mark their territories, and acts as a defence against predators. The blue morpho is often one of the species featured in Sensational Butterflies, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

“A morpho, while they don’t taste bad ... by scaring them with that bright blue flash of the wings.” Both butterflies come ...

Introducing these multicolour solar panels has significant potential to modify the existing renewable energy infrastructure. Scientists developed new solar panels using morpho butterflies’ blue ...