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

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

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

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

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the long-legged centipedes or impaling air-snatchers that usually star in the islands ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

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

Discover the bone collector caterpillar, a carnivorous insect unique to Hawaii that adorns its silk case with prey.

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

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.” U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the “bone collector” comes ...

is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The researchers believe the "bone collector" comes from ...