The peppered moth has long been one of the most popular stories in all of evolution—for Darwinians and creationists alike. The Darwinians have always treated the sudden appearance in the mid-19th ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

The peppered moth as it looked before the Industrial Revolution and also now that clean-air laws have improved pollution in the United Kingdom. (Olaf Leillinger via Wikipedia) (CN) – Moths that have ...

Yale researchers are coloring in moths that have been dead for 50 million years. A team of researchers including Derek Briggs, director of the Peabody Museum, discovered for the first time the ...

It is difficult to distinguish caterpillars of the peppered moth from a twig. The caterpillars not only mimic the form but also the color of a twig. In a new study, researchers demonstrate that the ...

Triangular leaf senecio, Senecio triangularis, is common on the eastern slope of Cimarron Ridge in the San Juan Mountains, from 9,000 to over 10,000 feet. This year they grew to 5 feet tall with ...

A new study revises the taxonomy of the Dioptinae, a subfamily of moths that have conquered the day in the tropical Americas. The roughly 500 described dioptines have a wide diversity of wing types -- ...

In this activity, your class will use images of historic peppered moth specimens from the Museum's collection to understand variation in a population. They will then play the lucky landing game to ...

Travelers to the neotropics—the tropical lands of the Americas—might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colorful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest understory are ...

A 47-million-year-old fossil moth from Messel, Germany. The moth is in glycerine, which make its structural colors appear yellow. A 47-million-year-old fossil moth wing looks yellow in glycerine. When ...

Aug. 5 (UPI) --Peppered moth caterpillars don't see color so much as they feel it. According to new research, peppered moths, during their caterpillar stage, sense color through their skin. This ...