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 ...

Nevada has a new endangered species, and it takes expert eyes and perfect timing to spot it fluttering through the high mountain meadows west of Las Vegas. The Mountain Charleston blue butterfly is ...

VERO BEACH (CBS4) – A rare inch long butterfly found only in South Florida has been added to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's "Endangered Species" list. The Miami blue butterfly is a coastal, ...

For years it was thought that California's lovely Palos Verdes blue butterfly - the size of a thumb-nail - was gone for good. But coincidence and hard work by scientists are bringing them back from ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a cool, crisp July morning on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. A wisp of salty air rustles the emerald leaves of a sea-cliff buckwheat plant on a steep, rocky bluff overlooking the Pacific. As passers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...