A shiny purple creature crawled around the inside of a tree near a palace in Bhutan. Perhaps the “stout” insect’s tree-dwelling lifestyle helped it go unnoticed. Or maybe the nearby palace simply ...

Six years ago, a summertime glimpse of the Halfway Creek wetlands on Brice Prairie revealed a vista of stunning violet. The cause was purple loosestrife, a plant native to Eurasia that spread with ...

If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of at Nerdist, it’s bugs. Not in a Snowpiercer kind of way, though. Rather, we like them as reminders of how weird and wonderful all of Earth’s little, ...

Have you been wondering about those roadside wildflowers that in the last few weeks have burst into a sea of purple? Let me introduce you to purple loosestrife, also known as lythrum salicaria. Do not ...

Scientists found a purple animal with a “remarkably big body” and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Punakha. Photo from Nihar Modi via Unsplash A shiny ...