The mouth of a praying mantis is perfectly adapted for its predatory lifestyle. Its mandibles (jawbones) are designed to ...

For millions of years, life on Earth has carried on and evolved thanks to finding mates and reproducing. Over those millions of years, species evolved into new species with new behaviors and processes ...

As you probably know, the female praying mantis will sometimes bite her mate’s head off. It’s not something that the insects make a habit of, exactly – they probably only do it when a male is ...

Female praying mantids are known for eating their mates, but what is the evolutionary advantage to this practice? This series of images is taken from film shot for Evolution: "Why Sex?" It depicts two ...

Praying mantises — with their angular features, huge eyes and centaur posture — often seem a bit alien. But researchers have recently found one mantis species that takes this otherworldly quality to ...