Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually share an ancient African ancestor and possibly form the oldest endemic animal lineage on ...

Egg cases from Chinese and European praying mantises can be differentiated by their shape. Neither species is native to ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a coastal woodland even more ancient than the Amazon, unicorns lurk. The forests, which have declined by as much as 90 percent in the last century and remain underexplored ...

Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There are more than 400 different ...

You probably wouldn’t want to step into a boxing ring with a mantis shrimp. Don’t let their small size fool you – these colourful crustaceans are among the mightiest fighters of the marine world.