Watch a butterfly break out of its chrysalis. This time-lapse captures the moment it unfolds its wings and completes its transformation | Xinhua Culture&Travel

1.5K views · 100 reactions | Playing with a time-lapse camera and a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. | Fish Guy Photos | Facebook

20K views · 842 reactions | Behind the scenes of our new butterfly-emergence experience! Biologist Tim Wong on how your visit—and the free-flying butterflies you'll see here—contributes to rainforest conservation. | California Academy of Sciences | Facebook

A few real-time seconds of a postman butterfly stretching its newly emerged wings for the very first time. Once it acclimates to no longer being inside a cozy chrysalis, this butterfly — along with others in the emergence chamber — will be released into our rainforest dome. | California Academy of Sciences