July 8 (UPI) --Researchers consider playing dead, or post-contact immobility, a strange phenomenon. Many animals play dead when faced with a predator, and researchers don't understand how the ruse ...

The larvae of antlions are sometimes referred to as "doodlebugs" because of the meandering trails some species leave in the sand as they wander around looking for a place to settle in and find some ...

A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed what animals do after they have feigned death in order to avoid being killed by a predator and what the context of this ...

Many animals feign death to try to escape their predators, with some individuals in prey species remaining motionless, if in danger, for extended lengths of time. Charles Darwin recorded a beetle that ...

They may look small and innocent, but antlions are actually one of the most nightmarish and deadly insects in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered how antlions dig their death traps - ...

Chennai: Researchers spotted a large-sized adult antlion, palpares contrarius, that resembles a dragonfly for the first time in Tamil Nadu on Madras Christian College (MCC) campus. Though it looks ...

Scientists have discovered two new antlion species of the Myrmeleontidae family of order Neuroptera from Kerala. A research team of Shadpada Entomology Research Lab (SERL), Christ College, ...

Researchers have found two poorly known antlion species of Myrmeleontidae family of order Neuroptera from India, Thailand, and Vietnam. They are Pseudoformicaleo nubecula and Creoleon cinnamomeus. The ...