The snake-tail mantis shows there’s more to these insects than just cannibalism. This male snake-tail mantis, Ameles serpentiscauda, has three simple eyes (ocelli) visible between its antennae, which ...

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

The praying mantis got its name from the Greek word mantikos, which means soothsayer or prophet. This name was given to them because of the unique way this insect rests with its forelegs clasped ...

(via Minute Earth) n the middle of baby-making, a female praying mantis will sometimes chomp down on a male’s head, then devour him as she finishes mating with him. And mantises aren’t alone; many ...

Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 ...

An engineer is reportedly fighting for his life after falling 20ft from a British Airways jet at a UK airport. The worker is in a “serious” condition in hospital after plunging onto concrete. He was ...

A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...