A team of scientists have discovered and named three new "leaf-planking" praying mantis species and recorded another mantis ...

At this time of year, some nurseries start selling the egg cases of Chinese mantis as a biological control for the garden. These alien-looking insects are praying mantis and are harmless to humans, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A McGill-led 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, ...

“Alien” mantis species Liturgusa maya may have arrived in the Galápagos as a stowaway in agricultural material, according to a study. Getty Images/iStockphoto The newly confirmed presence of an “alien ...

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 ...