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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then there are the carnivorous caterpillars, an evolutionary rarity. And now scientists have discovered one very hungry ...

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 ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

What it eats: Flies, weevils, bark beetles, ants or any arthropod caught in a spider's web Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh.