The 8-inch insect nearly went extinct when hungry rats overran its island. But Melbourne scientists found a few in 2001 and started a thriving... Love Giant Insects? Meet The Tree Lobster, Back From ...

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...

When it comes to stick insects it seems you really can't judge a tree lobster by its cover, a new study finds. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, entomologist Dr ...

Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This evolutionary blueprint has enabled researchers to predict the critters' next ...

A large walking stick insect thought to be extinct since the 1920s has been successfully bred in the U.S. Lord Howe Island stick insect eggs started hatching this week at the San Diego Zoo, according ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth’s ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought to be extinct for many years until several of the species were discovered on a nearby 'sea stack' in 2001. NBC Universal, Inc. For years, scientists ...