More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

The blackness of the trees from coal and oil, Contrasted with the skin nature had planned. The white-bodied peppered moth. (Photo Credit: Olaf Leillinger via Wikimedia Commons). This is a ...

Scientists have finally pinpointed the genetic mutation that made the peppered moth a Biology 101 fixture. When the Industrial Revolution caked British cities with soot, peppered moths’ light, ...

The wings of the peppered moth are usually white with black speckles—a pattern that renders them invisible against the bark of a typical tree. But in the early 19th century, the trunks of English ...

Peppered moths and copycat butterflies owe their wing color-changing abilities to a single gene, two independent studies suggest. “This begins to unravel exactly what the original mutation was that ...

Want to learn more about natural selection? Just look for a black peppered moth—Biston betularia. During the early 19th century in Britain, the moths used to have salt-and-pepper coloring. But over ...

Patterns on the wing of a Heliconius melpomene, or postman butterfly, composed of tiles of overlapping colored scales. Image credit: Nicola Nadeau, University of Sheffield In the early 1800s, peppered ...

The peppered moth became a creationist symbol for everything that is wrong about evolution. Now the tide has turned again IN 2000, a popular school textbook called Biology reluctantly dropped its ...