Behold the bone-skipper, high in the running for the strangest fly on Earth. For the bone-skipper, fresh carcasses just won't do. No, these flies prefer large, dead bodies in advanced stages of decay.

A March 25 car crash in northern New Jersey saw a corpse ejected from a vehicle into the road — and a horse leaping into traffic. Paramus Police Department photo A surreal car crash in northern New ...

THIS species of fly was declared extinct more than 100 years ago. Here's the problem. It's still buzzing around, feasting merrily on decaying corpses. The 'bone-skipper', or Centrophlebomyia ...

Carrion insects are the stopwatches of death investigations. Within minutes of a body becoming a corpse, blow flies arrive. Forensic researchers have well-calibrated knowledge of different blow fly ...