Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

In a remote, lushly forested area of an Oahu mountain range, scientists have discovered a carnivorous caterpillar species ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only ...

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the ...

There are other meat-eating caterpillars that "do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake," the study's author said.

Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...

Like hermit crabs, these caterpillars carry their cases with them as they move before emerging from them as full grown moths.

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

The caterpillar species with a macabre fashion sense was discovered by researchers in Hawaii. Its casing is a disguise to ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu ... way that they have nicknamed it the “bone collector.” A federally funded environmental ...