A South American butterfly has a checkered past, say biologists. It’s one of the few animal species that seems to have arisen via a supposedly rare path: crossing two older species.
HISTORIC MIX-UP. Today’s Heliconius heurippa butterfly species sports bright stripes combining the patterns of two other species, which were probably its long-ago parents.
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