Dr Ilik Saccheri explains the science behind biology's most famous insect (video by Victoria Gill) Scientists have discovered the specific mutation that famously turned moths black during the ...

(CN) – Moths that have evolved to be a paler color are less likely to be eaten than the darker moths that have adapted to air pollution, a British study found. In “one of the most iconic examples of ...

The peppered moth was the most diagrammatic example of the phenomenon of industrial melanism that came to be recognised in industrial and smoke-blackened parts of England in the mid-nineteenth century ...

AT FIRST sight the peppered moth is a rather unprepossessing creature. Surrounded by its more brightly coloured relatives in a moth collection, drab old Biston betularia scarcely catches the eye. Yet ...

Evolution from a single-celled ancestor to all the current forms of life requires not merely “changes in gene frequency” (8 December 2007, p 46) but the spontaneous generation of qualitatively new ...

The Peppered moth, which changed its colour from white to black in areas of Britain with heavy pollution, is now reverting to its original appearance. 19 June 2009 • 12:57pm The Peppered Moth was ...