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Form follows function. This is the principle that the design or shape of something – whether made by humans or in nature – should serve a purpose.

Pesticides, the loss of food sources and the loss of habitat are a triple threat for monarchs, the state insect of Illinois.

A devastating attack on a humpback whale by a savvy shark was captured on film for the first time. The great white shark "managed to open a vein and blood immediately started pluming out" in the rare assault

On July 21, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature placed the migratory monarch butterfly on its Red List of threatened species and classified it as endangered. Monarchs migrate across North America each year and are one of the continent’s most widely recognized species. The Conversation asked Oklahoma…