When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim.

New York City veterinarians performed a wing transplant procedure on a monarch butterfly in a video that's since gone viral.

In the 'butterfly effect,' an insect can flap its wings and create a microscopic change in initial conditions that leads to a hurricane halfway around the world. This chaos is seen everywhere, from ...

A monarch butterfly (Dannaux plexippus) flaps its wings in Piedra Herrada Sanctuary, Mexico. Might this start a chain of events that results in a tornado in Texas? Photograph by Jaime Rojo In 1961, ...

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a wing transplant gave it a second chance to fly ...

The wing was in perfect shape," said Janine Bendicksen, director of wildlife rehabilitation at the Sweetbriar Nature Center ...

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