‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ trailer explores alien life and butterflies

After the briefest of teases at the start of the year, Fox is ready to show Cosmos: Possible Worlds in earnest. The network has released an initial trailer that suggests Possible Worlds will follow the basic formula of the reborn series’ first season while covering some decidedly different ground. As the name implies, there’s a […]

Butterflies Were Tenderly Saved Before Hurricane Irma Hit

While millions of Florida residents evacuated in advance of Hurricane Irma this weekend, many others stayed behind to make sure that the some of the state’s more delicate animals stayed safe. Employees at the Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville, carefully captured up butterflies in the museum’s Butterfly Rainforest, a screened in outdoor enclosure […]

A farewell to kings? New ideas on the vanishing monarch butterflies

Everybody loves monarch butterflies. Author Anurag Agrawal refers to them as “the Bambi of the insect world.” They are specifically bred to be released at weddings; their image has been pressed into service as the symbol of environmental organizations like the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Non-GMO project. TIP: Read Clive`s The Ultimate Guide to Butterflies & […]

When It Rained Butterflies in Paris

Let me take you back to Nov. 13, 2016. Paris was mourning that day: the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 130 people. Nearly a year before that, we’d all walked the long boulevard from the Bataclan to the mourning plaza at Place de la République, grieving and shoving cameras […]