A praying mantis is a lanky insect with a triangular head, large eyes, and six long legs, the front two of which seem to be perpetually lifted in prayer. But with over 2,400 species of them on the ...

What a gift it has been, to share time and space with Manty, to experience her totemic significance, a spiritual inkblot ...

The large, odd-looking insect drew attention from my friends who had gathered on a recent afternoon. The praying mantis was ...

If it creeps, crawls or grosses you out, chances are Kathy Sorensen — aka Wyoming's critter lady — loves it. She's a ...

Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures ...

Mantis shrimp eyes are capable of moving independently of one another, allowing them to scan their ... [+] surroundings with extreme precision and track fast-moving prey with incredible accuracy.

The British artist David Shrigley has returned to his Midlands secondary school almost 40 years after graduating to unveil an animatronic sculpture of a giant praying mantis, in the hope that it ...

Leicestershire artist David Shrigley has returned to the school where he took his first proper art lessons to install a giant ...

The praying mantis was slowly walking along the edge of the parking lot, not a bug friendly place. Maybe it had hitched a ride on the front of someone’s car. Measuring about 2 to 3.5 inches long ...