Mothra is real, and she is Australian. Construction workers at an Australian primary school (i.e. elementary school) found a huge bug this week, and have been proudly showing it off as per primary ...

An Australian worker realized every entomophobe’s worst nightmare after encountering a moth so huge that it struggled to fly. The Mount Cotton State School in Queensland, where Mothra was discovered, ...

June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths are members of the family Saturniidae and include some of the most spectacular native large ...

Call it The Mothman Prophecies Part II. For the last month, Oklahoma City resident Carol Dillin and her husband have been living their own version of the urban legend. A massive winged creature has ...

Diane Winkler was hiking with her wife about a week ago at Point Reyes National Seashore when she spotted something that drew her up short. “Along the Abbotts Lagoon Trail, we got to a boardwalk where ...

You know that old saying in journalism: Write about giant, weird bugs once, and your inbox forevermore will brim with photos of giant, weird bugs. It’s been two weeks since we covered the appearance ...

Not afraid of lions or tigers or bears? How about a giant moth with a wingspan that can reach up to 10 inches? Now, that’s a whole different story. Officials in Washington state are urging people to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated image provided by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, after tagging, moths are released in Konstanz, ...