Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All After a ship wrecked on Lord Howe Island, a rat population invaded and eradicated a species of giant stick insect—or so researchers thought.

An international team of scientists said last week that they have discovered the 126-million-year-old fossil of an insect whose appearance mimicked that of a nearby plant.

Once classified as extinct, the Lord Howe Island stick insect is now thriving in captive breeding – but more work is needed before they are no longer critically endangered. NOT ONLY HAS the Lord Howe ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...