The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 news ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Silvery Blue butterfly. Gayle Laird More than 80 years after the iconic Xerces Blue butterfly vanished from San Francisco, ...

The restoration of a Finnish meadow helped bring back a butterfly that had disappeared from the site after young Scots pine trees spread across its open habitat. The conservation effort combined ...

It’s been roughly 80 years since the Xerces blue butterfly was last spotted flitting about on pastel wings across coastal California sand dunes. But scientists are still learning about the insect. The ...

After being declared extinct in Britain, the large blue butterfly has made a remarkable return, flourishing across thirty-three different sites. Since 1983, its population has soared by an astounding ...

The Xerces Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces) was native to the coastal dunes of San Francisco, in the United States. As the city grew, much of the butterfly's habitat was destroyed and its ...