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Supernatural, the Beat Saber-like VR app ... would have landed on a heavy bag like the gentle flutter of a butterfly wing. Thankfully, I have no interest in going to a boxing gym — heck, I ...

Over the years, Yack noticed that one group of nymphalids—the satyrines, or browns—has weird veins on the top pair of wings. Veins are common to all butterfly wings; they’re air-filled tubes ...

Butterflies, with their intricate wing structures and vibrant colors, have served as a muse for numerous technological ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs ...

On some butterfly wings, “tails” may be more than just elegant adornments. They’re survival tools too, a study suggests. The tails seem to attract the attention of attacking birds ...

A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales, like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex ...