New York City veterinarians performed a wing transplant procedure on a monarch butterfly in a video that's since gone viral The butterfly's wing was repaired at the Sweetbriar Nature Center in ...

A daring surgical procedure has given a doomed monarch butterfly a new lease of life. The delicate operation was captured on ...

Butterfly wings get their color in ways that almost feel impossible. Up close, each wing is made of countless tiny scales that either hold pigment or manipulate light. The oranges, reds, and browns ...

SMITHTOWN, New York (WCBS) -- A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a caring hand, and a clever idea, gave it a second chance to fly again. At the Sweetbriar ...

SMITHTOWN, N.Y. – A monarch butterfly has a new lease on life after he received the first butterfly wing transplant at a wildlife rehabilitation center. The endangered insect was recently brought to ...

NEW YORK — A Long Island nature center used a dead butterfly's wing to help another butterfly continue its life and migration. The Monarch butterfly in question was brought in by a Good Samaritan with ...

Can structures that give butterfly winds their iridescent sheen be easily harnessed to improve cancer diagnosis? New research reported in Advanced Materials suggests that they can. When a biopsy, or ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a unique way to analyze the extent of fibrosis using butterfly wings. The team specifically ...

Scientists have discovered a new twist in a process that forms an intricate nanostructure responsible for the vibrant green colours of the Emerald-patched Cattleheart butterfly's wings. (Nanowerk News ...

According to Janine Bendicksen, director of wildlife rehabilitation at the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, N.Y., the patient was brought to the facility by a resident named Dagmar Hoffdavis, ...