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For the first time, researchers have described a new species of praying mantis based on female genitalia – and not the male’s. Also, it’s named after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Who has six legs, cone-shaped eyes, and just changed science history? Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course. All right, fine. Not the revered Supreme Court justice herself, but the new mantis species ...

While there are somewhere around 2,000 species of mantids around the world, only three are common on Staten Island. In addition to the native Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the European ...

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a coastal woodland even more ancient than the Amazon, unicorns lurk. The forests, which have declined by as much as 90 percent in the last century and remain underexplored ...

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said. Researchers Sydney Brannoch and Gavin Svenson have identified a new species of ...

Nineteen new species of a tree-living praying mantis family have been discovered, tripling the group's diversity at a stroke. The bark mantises from Central and South America were found in tropical ...

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 scientist has discovered 19 new species of praying mantis from Central and South America. The new species of bark mantises were discovered in tropical forests and also found among existing museum ...