On this week's episode: bone collector caterpillar, dolphins pee on each other, using cars to sample air, and obsidian ...

Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from operating Mars rovers to exploring Antarctica's hidden ...

Hawaiʻi lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill intended to help shore up Hawaiian Electric Co.’s credit rating despite strong opposition from House and Senate committee chairs who helped vet the measure ...

Even though so many of us have experienced snow recently, we are also experiencing daffodils. And while, yes, some of us have already experienced the odd tick or mosquito, for the most part we are ...

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

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin cocoons.

The bone collector caterpillar lives in spiderwebs along the Waiʻanae Mountains and evades capture by encasing itself in the ...

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

The “bone collector" caterpillar lives in spider webs and decorates its portable home with the body parts of the spider’s ...

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

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists have discovered a new caterpillar species they dub the “bone collector.” The bone ...

The findings about the rare bone collector caterpillar, a newly discovered species native to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...