Thermal controls within the sealed payload kept the chamber near 30 °C, allowing the pupa to complete metamorphosis. The ...
A butterfly completed metamorphosis about 400 kilometres above Earth’s surface. It emerged from its chrysalis aboard China’s ...
Oren Harman’s Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History uses the most dramatic transformations in nature — caterpillar to butterfly, larva to adult starfish, even the axolotl’s “refusal” to grow up — ...