Decades from now, when humanity has been reduced to small populations hiding in catacombs deep beneath the earth from the Praying Mantii Overlords, they will think back to that fateful, accursed day ...

Even though I know that praying mantises are not native to New England and that they are not beneficial (due to their voracious appetites for anything small and alive) I still wait for them to show up ...

When you think of the Jurassic Period, you might think of dinosaurs, but all kinds of insects, including praying mantises, roamed the Earth back then, too. Some of the mantises died and fossilized ...

The North Museum of Nature and Science has all kinds of sights to see, but a new guest is catching a lot of people’s eyes. He is a gigantic praying mantis — 13½ feet from wings to the tip of the head ...

The light was almost gone from the valley when my husband David and I drove down to look at our wheat field. It's almost ready to be harvested, and in the daylight it's now bright yellow. But we weren ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Giving whole new meaning to the term "bug eyed," researchers glue tiny glasses to the weird insect that sees and hunts in 3D in hopes of understanding 3D vision better. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

I know what I saw. It was a praying mantis, and he went swimming. On purpose. And he did it over and over again. I have it on film. The scene was a riffled section of the Sepulga River. There, rock ...

No matter how many times I come across one, I always get a kick when I find a praying mantis egg case. The tan-colored egg cases are somewhat common but hard enough to find that it makes them a bit of ...