The world's most colorful moths can even rival the beauty of butterflies — but these marvelous designs are also crucial to ...

Fossilized moth wings that look blue in death would have been yellow-green in life, a new study finds, suggesting a colorful method of camouflage and warning. The moths probably used their colors some ...

Moths are anything but ordinary. Around the world, these insects have evolved colors, shapes, and behaviors that make them look unreal.

In this exquisitely preserved fossil moth is a glimpse of life's colors almost as they appeared 47 million years ago. "Until now, we had no idea what colors ancient moths and butterflies had," said ...

The brightest hues in nature are produced by tiny patterns in, say, feathers or scales rather than pigments. These so-called "structural colors" are widespread, giving opals their fire, people their ...

What was blue, yellow and fuzzy all over? The answer, according to a new study on prehistoric color, is a 47-million-year-old moth. The brilliant hues, researchers say, may indicate that this group of ...

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 ...

A research team led by Yale University scientists has for the first time determined the original colors of an ancient moth, based on nearly 50 million-year-old fossils from Germany. The discovery ...

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 ...

Sure, he looks cute — just don't let him near your broccoli. Photo by J. Ogrodnick The diamondback moth catterpillar (Plutella xylostella) may not look like much, but don't be fooled by its generic ...

Fossilized moth wings that look blue in death would have been yellow-green in life, a new study finds, suggesting a colorful method of camouflage and warning. The moths probably used their colors some ...