The morpho butterfly flashes perhaps the most stunning blue in the animal kingdom. But here's the weird bit: That's no pigment. It's actually a trick of light, thanks to some fancy nano-level ...

Professor Andrew Parker, of the Natural History Museum in London, grew a wing of the blue morpho – distinguished by its metallic-blue wings – from embryonic wing scales. He hoped to find a way ...

The latest discovery was made with the blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides), which dazzles with its bright-blue wing coloration when it flits about in its native Central and South America.

Image by Nipam Patel This is no ordinary butterfly collection. It’s a showcase of blue morphos (Morpho didius), a species native to the forests of South America whose wings—especially the males’—are ...

A group of Osaka University researchers has developed a novel design for daylight window panes inspired by the structure of the Morpho butterfly wings that shine in a brilliant blue. The pane ...

Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho.

Morpho butterflies are emblematic species of the Amazonian rainforest known for their metallic shades of blue and green ... described previously in other butterfly species, but this new work ...

The Blue Morpho butterfly, a stunning creature from Costa Rica, is known for its large size and vivid blue upper side. But there's more to that blue than just beauty. And as the Museum of Life and ...