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 ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hawaiian scientists discover a carnivorous caterpillar that decorates its shell with the body parts of dead insects ...