Lord Howe Stick Insect: Extinct Species Back From the Dead After 100 Years Published Oct 05, 2017 at 1:34 PM EDT Updated Oct 05, 2017 at 2:08 PM EDT Adult female Dryococelus australis on hand.

Fewer than 30 adult stick insects are left on Ball's Pyramid, per the Conversation, making it perhaps the rarest insect on earth. Now, researchers want to bring the stick bug back to Lord Howe Island.

The Melbourne Zoo has been breeding stick insects taken from Ball’s Pyramid since 2003, with the goal of reintroducing them to Lord Howe. As of November 2, about 14,500 insects — spanning 14 ...

Meet The Tree Lobster, Back From The Brink : The Two-Way The 8-inch insect nearly went extinct when hungry rats overran its island. But Melbourne scientists found a few in 2001 and started a ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect did the impossible. These "land lobsters" were once so common on Lord Howe Island in Australia that fishermen used them as bait. But in 1918, a British supply ship ...

The newly described stick insect Phryganistria heusii yentuensis is over a foot long (32cm), or 21 inches (54 cm) with its front legs stretched out. It's the second biggest living insect that has ...

Indian Stick Insect (carausius morosus), Museum of Natural History Berlin Feb. 19, 2016, 7:57 PM EST / Updated Feb. 21, 2016, 10:00 AM EST By Summer Ash , Summer Ash ...

A species of stick insects found in Britain have stopped having sex with their male counterparts and become a female-only population. The insects - found off the coast of Cornwall - reproduce ...

The hard-to-spot stick insects were first found in the garden about six years ago The largest recorded colony of stick insects in the UK has been found in a back garden in Cornwall, according to ...

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 colony. Now the San Diego Zoo is hatching them, too.