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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along spiderwebs ...

That means its ancestors likely inhabited other Hawaiian islands before becoming isolated on the mountainside where it now survives. Of course, survival is far from guaranteed. The bone collector ...