Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But one newly described species doesn’t just hold its prey in a prickly embrace: It ...

In the arid environment of west-central Iran, a new species of praying mantis was discovered. Pey Khakbaz via Unsplash The feeling of fear is familiar to everyone, from when you hear a peculiar noise ...

Some animals reproduce only once before dying. This life strategy, called semelparity, sees organisms channel all energy into ...

Praying mantises have been spotted wild in the southwest of England for the first time and may have arrived on wind or in luggage. Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) have reported that two recent sightings ...

Leaving a legacy is important to many people, and some would be honored to have anything to carry on their name -- a street, a town, maybe even a bug? Well, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known to all as ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a coastal woodland even more ancient than the Amazon, unicorns lurk. The forests, which have declined by as much as 90 percent in the last century and remain underexplored ...

A McGill-led research team has identified a new species of praying mantis thanks to imprints of its fossilized wings. It lived in Labrador, in the Canadian Subarctic around 100 million years ago, ...

A research team has identified a new species of praying mantis thanks to imprints of its fossilized wings. It lived in Labrador, in the Canadian Subarctic around 100 million years ago, during the time ...