Butterfly In the Sky incorporates interviews with Burton and many of the crew members who made the show, as well as several “Book Review Kids” to tell the show’s origin story. It’s easy to ...

Directors Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb's documentary "Butterfly in the Sky," now available to rent and streaming on Netflix, captures how a few pioneering educators assembled to create ...

In 1906, English naturalist and explorer Albert Stewart Meek was two days deep into the rainforests of New Guinea when he spotted an enormous butterfly. With little hesitation, he shot it out of the ...

Some collectors shot large butterflies out of the sky with shotguns filled with mustard seed. The unusual ammunition was used to limit the damage caused to the specimens. The Natural History ...

The more insecticides we spray, the fewer wings that will fill the sky,” Mikula wrote in the preface to his “Family Butterfly Book” in 2000. Since then, America has lost one in five ...