One night in March of last year, a praying mantis crept onto a rooftop garden in India and perched on an artificial pond, waiting intently. When an unsuspecting guppy swam by, the insect snatched it ...

Scientists described the first evidence of a praying mantis feeding on fish, reporting the chance observations of a Bangalore lawyer Scientists on Thursday described the first evidence of a praying ...

Praying mantises may not actually pray, but they do prey heavily on their fellow insects, along with other small land animals. Now, however, for the first time, scientists have documented a praying ...

Praying mantises are what scientists call “generalist” hunters, meaning they eat pretty much whatever they want. Despite their eclectic taste, however, no one has ever seen a praying mantis eat ...

This huge praying mantis managed to lift a dead goldfish out of it's bowl - and eat it for lunch. The extraordinary process was captured on camera by wildlife photographer Scott Cromwell. Scott, 40, ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Most praying mantises eat insects. Occasionally, mantids are seen preying on more exotic menu times -- birds, small amphibians and reptiles, even mice. According to new research, they ...

Los Angeles-basedproduction, distribution and sales house Echelon Entertainment has sold rightsto certain territories on Marc Levie's Belgian thriller Praying Mantis and Brian Austin Green's US ...

Contrary to their name, mantis shrimp aren’t actually shrimp. They belong to another group of shelled critters called stomatopods that split from other crustaceans about 400 million years ago. However ...

A praying mantis has been found eating fish in the wild for the very first time. The predatory insect is known to devour birds, reptiles and small mammals such as mice, but it has never been captured ...