Female praying mantises have a reputation as ruthless killers who decapitate their mates without hesitation, but the reality of what actually happens during their mating rituals is far stranger and ...

The haikuist was amazed by the Earthset images seen by astronauts. Ancient dark lava flows and massive craters in the Sonoran ...

Boosted by climate change and human activity, these praying mantises have settled in – and are proving to be quite ...

Two giant Asian praying mantis species are rapidly spreading across Europe, leading scientists to officially classify them as ...

Two striking Asian praying mantis species that have rapidly spread across Europe have now been officially classified as ...

In the lush and mysterious realms of the natural world, the lines between predator and prey can blur in unexpected ways. Plants are usually seen as static, passive entities in the food chain, relying ...

A twisted Hungarian hospital worker allegedly stole and stockpiled human remains from his workplace and abandoned cemeteries — and admitted to eating some of them. The 30-year-old man from Budapest ...

The praying mantis is far more than a creepy-looking insect. With incredible vision, a head that can rotate to track prey, and lightning-fast raptorial arms, it has become one of nature's most ...

A Hungarian hospital worker allegedly put human remains on the menu ... and police say he was the hungry customer, too. Authorities in Budapest last week arrested a 30-year-old man after getting a tip ...

Researchers have identified three new-to-science species of snake mantises, two from Australia and one from Papua New Guinea, and figured out their distribution and behavior with the help of citizen ...

It all began innocently enough. A friend photographed a small hive-like substance in our local nature preserve. The spongy mass was weird-looking and about the size of a marshmallow. He figured it ...