Mimicry in animals is a common form of protection from predators. For instance, two distasteful or toxic butterflies may mimic each other for mutual defense, as the viceroy and monarch butterflies do.

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

Key pointsScientists constructed a family tree for butterflies in the genus Adelpha, which are native to North and South America and display ...

When I started writing this article, I searched for the best word to describe how plants attract bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, and even bats to help with pollination. Five words came to mind: ...

"Blend in or die" is one of the unquestionable laws of survival. Whether it's a chameleon, a soldier or a tiny succulent, the rule is always the same. If they can't find you, they can't kill you. So ...