Preying mantises are vulnerable to horsehair worm parasites, which depend on other animals for their lifecycle needs.

Horsehair worms can control a host's brain and steer it to water, where it drowns. Scientists have studied the worms' mind-controlling power for years. But what's really going on? New research shows ...

This photo shows a mantis and its parasitic horsehair worm. (Photo courtesy of Takuya Sato, associate professor at Kyoto University) TOKYO -- Parasitic horsehair worms use genes they have taken from ...

This image provided by associate professor Takuya Sato of Kyoto University shows a Harabiro mantis walking on asphalt. OSAKA -- Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A ...

One of the world’s most fearsome crustaceans has evolved to deliver deadly punches to its prey without damaging its own body — and now, scientists have shown how. A study published on 6 February in ...