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

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

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...

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

This suggests bone collector moths migrated from an even older Hawaiian island that has since disappeared to get to their ...

A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the "bone collector." The odd insect is only ...

A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a ...

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 ...