There are nearly 20,000 butterfly species divided into six families. They are spread across every continent except for Antarctica. Among those 20,000 species, there are many unique butterflies. There ...

Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea’s Oro ...

In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of Papua New Guinea, the Queen Alexandra birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ...