A ghost mantis, also known as Phyllocrania paradoxa, is a species of praying mantis that can go ... virtually invisible to passing predators and prey. Ghost mantises are on the smaller side ...

This is the hilarious moment a praying mantis climbed onto a tourist's neck while he was clubbing on a Thai island. The green bug was seen crawling on the back of a visitor's neck as he danced with ...

These critters get their name from their kaleidoscope shell—like a peacock’s tail—and their hinged forearms which resemble that of a praying ... shell of a mantis shrimp’s prey, killing ...

Rumor has it that birds fall victim to insects they view as prey: praying mantises ... with the 8-centimeter-long predator, the largest mantis in Japan. Not much escapes its clutches, armed ...

Like a praying mantis, the mantis shrimp use a specialised pair of forelimbs to capture prey and are divided into the ‘spearers’, those that hunt by impaling their prey on spear like ...

Like mimicry, camouflage can be "protective," to avoid the attention of predators, or "aggressive," to allay suspicion while the predator attacks its prey. The praying mantis that has evolved a ...

and it also helps them sneak up on their own prey. The slender green body of this Indian grass mantis mimics a blade of grass – a camouflage perfectly suited for its habitat. Get a closer view of the ...

The winner in question is the New Zealand velvet worm (Peripatoides novaezealandiae), which beat out the praying mantis and giant ... trapping its prey. It then uses its jaws to start cutting ...