If you look quickly, you might mistake the ghost mantis for a dead leaf. Its decorative appearance is one of its best tools.

Don’t let their calm posture fool you praying mantises are stealthy, precise, and deadly hunters. With lightning-fast strikes and powerful claws, these insects are true masters of ambush.

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

A crown that looks like one long, dead leaf sits on its head. No two mantises look alike, but they share similar body styles and colors. According to Keeping Insects, ghost mantises are usually ...

During recent field surveys, researchers collected four juvenile praying mantises and brought them back to the lab, according to a study published Feb. 27 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. The ...

The study revealed that spined soldier bugs—a predatory stink bug native to North America known for preying on various agricultural pests—as well as Carolina and Chinese mantises were ...

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During recent field surveys, researchers collected four juvenile praying mantises and brought them back to the lab, according to a study published Feb. 27 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa.

He studies animal behavior, focusing on species like spiders, mantises, stalk-eyed flies, scorpions and otters. Before his professorship at Yale-NUS College, he was a Research Fellow at the University ...

Sexual cannibalism is common among cephalopods — such as octopuses — as well as in other animals like spiders or mantises. When it comes to female octopuses, eating their sexual mate allows ...