Did you know that the animal kingdom is full of strange and unexpected power dynamics? In this jaw-dropping video, we reveal ...

A Colorado dog trying to chase off a praying mantis may have been barking up the wrong tree in Berthoud. Watch the silly ...

Praying mantis species can come in different colors, like brown, green or yellow. You might be most familiar with the green variety, as those are often depicted in photos, movies and so on.

A praying mantis (left), a horned treehopper (middle) and a species of an assassin bug (right) are photographed. Read on for fascinating and numerical facts on these bugs and others.

Praying mantises have only one ear, which uses the same ultrasonic frequency that bats, their biggest predators, use. When they sense an approaching bat, ...

The adult praying mantises don’t survive our winters, instead the female will eventually produce an egg case-called an ootheca–which contains up to 200 eggs.

The praying mantis is one of the few insects with compound eyes and the ability to perceive 3D space. Engineers are replicating their visual systems to make machines see better.

The Chinese praying mantis is the one I see most often in our garden. They are brown with a green patch on their side that runs the length of their body. At 3 to 5 inches long, they are the larger ...