Butterflies

Replace that margarita with vino de cocos.

Places and cultures glow and shine around the world in some of our favorite Atlas Obscura shots.

From playing tag with sea lions to holding hands with an orangutan.

At the Joya Redonda Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, hibernating monarch numbers have multiplied tenfold. But is that enough to save the insect?

Riverside Nature Center is a 2-acre property that packs in over 200 species of wildflowers, grasses, and ferns, 140 species of trees, and a Monarch Waystation for butterflies to stopover on their way from Canada to Mexico.

Accidentally released on a Finnish island 30 years ago, the parasites are spreading.

From glasswing butterflies to vanishing octopuses, evolution is a mad scientist.

He spent $5 on a few water jugs and two succulents.

Pine rockland grows on the most stable land in Florida, which is why it’s doomed.

Their work affirmed the insect's taxonomy too. Because you can’t spell “named” without D-N-A.