Animal Life

Graphic showing a butterfly specimen overtop a portion of the largest butterfly tree of life ever created. The "tree" was assembled with DNA from more than 2000 butterfly species representing all butterfly families and 92% of genera.

Graphic showing a butterfly specimen overtop a portion of the largest butterfly tree of life ever created. The "tree" was assembled with DNA from more than 2000 butterfly species representing all butterfly families and 92% of genera.

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell

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A bumblebee foraging on blueberry flowers.

A bumblebee foraging on blueberry flowers.

Credit: Winfree Lab

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Image of an endangered antelope fading away.

Extinction risk for 1,700 animal species to increase by 2070. The Nile lechwe is an already endangered antelope species in East Africa.

Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein, Yale University

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swimming fish

Fish swim along a coral reef in the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

Credit: Jennifer Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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dinosaurs

Allosaurs attack a sauropod along a beach in what is now Utah, 150 million years ago.

Credit: Todd Marshall

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Monarch butterflies

Monarch butterflies bask in the Florida sun. NSF scientists have been tracking the monarchs’ decline in the hopes of finding clues to saving them.

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Court Whelan

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