If there is no bird more American than the eagle, there is no butterfly more American than the monarch. Breathtaking and resilient, the monarch butterfly completes one of the most astounding ...

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...

Taylor founded a nonprofit called Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas 30 years ago, and so far it's helped tag more than two million of them. Anderson Cooper: How do you tag a butterfly that ...

Monarch butterflies are a "canary in the coal mine." They are an indicator of things to come if we don't protect the delicate species.