A perfect home is hard to find, and some mantis shrimp called "smashers" for their clublike arm work hard to locate one that's just right. If the home already has an owner, the invader will fight ...

Last week I discovered, via Discover Magazine in fact, that the marvellous mantis shrimp was not quite the creature I thought it to be. Mantis shrimp - or Stomatopods - as we science types like to ...

Iranian researcher Mahmood Kolnegari has described a new praying mantis species in central Iran, naming it Sinaiella azadi (“freedom” in Persian) to symbolize the importance of scientific freedom and ...