Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

A research team of scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University has provided insights into the origins of complete metamorphosis in insects. More than 60% of all animal species ...

Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid -- a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. But how exactly do chrysalises stay ...

ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE’RE LEARNING ABOUT A CREEPY CRAWLY CREATURE YOU COULD SEE IN THE LIFE EXHIBIT. AND EVEN MORE, WE ARE FINDING OUT ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT THEIR BODIES GO ...