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  Loggers Destroying Monarch's Mexico Home

  Satellite photos show illegal logging in Monarch butterfly habitat.

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  Butterflies Remember Caterpillar Days

  Butterflies and moths can remember stuff from their times as caterpillars.

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  Swiming Toward Extinction?

  A fish coveted by aquarium collectors may be at risk of extinction.

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  Insect Invasion Possible as Climate Warms

  Rising temperatures, CO2 levels could spur insect explosion in some areas.

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  Secret to Butterfly Migration

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  Incredible Batch of Rare and New Species Discovered

  An expedition to Ghana yielded amazing finds, including eight new katydid species.

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  Greatest Mysteries: What Drives Evolution?

  Biologists are finding novel ways that nature forms diverse life on Earth.

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  Evolution Occurs in the Blink of an Eye

  Tropical butterflies have evolved to fend off a deadly parasite.

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  Ancient Greenland Was Actually Green

  Greenland was once carpeted in lush forests, a new study shows.

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  Top 10 Most Incredible Animal Journeys

  Animals will make extraordinary and often mysterious expeditions to find a good meal, sexy mates, and the perfect place to raise a family. This month, billions of

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  Bacteria Make Female Butterflies Promiscuous, Scientists Say

  A germ that kills males triggers a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly, scientists now find.

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  Nature's Whitest White Found in Ghostly Beetle

  A beetle with scales as pale as a ghost could help engineers come up with super-thin, paper-white paints, new research shows.

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  Talking Fish: Wide Variety of Sounds Discovered

  At least 1,000 species communicate by sound, and scientists are only beginning to discover the range of bizarre noise-making and listening techniques.

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  Mobility Key to Animals Surviving Human Sprawl

  Some butterflies within a species are stronger than others, and more able to colonize new areas. And they happen to be more fertile, too.

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  Scientists Create Butterfly Hybrid

  Creation of new species through hybridization was thought to be common only in plants, and rare in animals.

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  California Sees Worst Butterfly Season in 35 Years

  Cold and wet conditions could cause some species to disappear from the state.

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  Slim Secret: Butterflies Burn Fat in Cocoon

  Butterflies burn a tremendous amount of fat while hibernating during the transformation from a caterpillar.

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  Scientist Reading the Leaves to Predict Violent Weather

  Moisture emitted by a single leaf provides clues to imminent thunderstorms and tornadoes.

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  The Secret of Bright Butterfly Wings: LED Technology

  The beautifully colored wings manipulate light using engineering tricks similar to those found in the light emitting diodes used in digital displays.

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  Butterfly's Navigation Secret Revealed in Flight Simulator

  The monarch tracks the angle of sunlight to find its way.

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  Billions of Butterflies Descend on California

  Record migration expected.