DESCRIPTION: The Sand Mountain blue is a small butterfly with a wingspan just under an inch; males average 11.1 millimeters, while females are slightly smaller at 10.9 millimeters. Males have ...

RENO, Nev. — Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday seeking protection for a rare butterfly they say is threatened by off-road vehicles at one of the largest sand dunes ...

On the surface, it was just a simple lesson about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, a celebration of the last step in a journey toward freedom, of sorts — their migration to Mexico. Under the ...

FALLON -- A new advisory panel is considering ways to protect a rare butterfly that threatens to close a portion of Sand Mountain to off-road vehicle enthusiasts. The Bureau of Land Management's eight ...

SAND SPRINGS — When Theodor Geisel got angry in 1969 that condominium developers intended to destroy cliff sides full of eucalyptus and cypress trees outside his window in La Jolla, California, he ...

MADISON — In the sand barrens of Wisconsin lives an endangered blue butterfly. Its range overlaps almost perfectly with the sand that’s become a lucrative part of natural gas drilling. And to kill a ...

The habitat of an endangered blue butterfly that lives in the sand barrens of western Wisconsin overlaps almost perfectly with the sand that's become a lucrative part of a boom in natural gas drilling ...

Sand sculpture is a rare phenomenon to Tiruchi as it does not have beaches. But, P. Sasivarma (35), an artist belonging to Osaravilai in Kanyakumari district, has made it possible by creating a ...