Who has six legs, cone-shaped eyes, and just changed science history? Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course. All right, fine. Not the revered Supreme Court justice herself, but the new mantis species ...

While there are somewhere around 2,000 species of mantids around the world, only three are common on Staten Island. In addition to the native Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the European ...

James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists. The finds have been published in Zootaxa. One of these new mantises ...

The Kratt brothers rescue a new species of praying mantis from Zach, Donita, and Gaston. The Kratt brothers are told that a scientist has just named a newly discovered praying mantis species after ...

Researchers have described a new species of praying mantis from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, adding to the 250 known mantis species native to the country. The new species, Vates phoenix, belongs to a ...

For the first time, researchers have described a new species of praying mantis based on female genitalia – and not the male’s. Also, it’s named after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female dragon mantises aren't subtle about letting males know that they're ready for sex. When it's mating time, females of this rare praying mantis species inflate a glistening, greenish gland that ...

The newly confirmed presence of an "alien," or non-native, mantis species on the Galápagos Islands has experts concerned about its impacts on the archipelago's delicate ecosystem. Even more concerning ...