There are few wild animals whose existence you could describe as ‘fun’, but a case could definitely be made for the peppermint stick insect.

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 surprising number of insects look like sticks and leaves. But nobody created them that way—they’re the product of the wonderful processes of natural selection. Released on 08/29/2016.

Scientists have identified an insect that's been dubbed the "creature from hell" following nightmarish footage that had even rough-and-tumble Australians metaphorically wetting themselves down under.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A stick insect from Papua New Guinea has turned evolution's "use it or lose it" theory on its head. Biologists have long believed ...

Even so, stick insects are not the most easily spotted treat. Unlike plants that evolved to appeal to birds and other animals, stick insects evolved to look much like sticks.

Poorly camouflaged insects can kick off a cascade of ecological impacts Date: October 21, 2013 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: A California walking stick insect that has evolved ...

Fossils found in China show a stick insect, left, that looks similar to the leaves of a plant, right, from the same era. (Reuters) By Will Dunham.

Within 30 years, the Lord Howe Island stick insects vanished. Then, in 1964, climbers on a nearby volcano known as Ball's Pyramid found a dead insect that looked suspiciously like the fabled land ...

The rare Lord Howe Island stick insect, also known as "tree lobsters," were believed to be extinct until a few were rediscovered in 2001. U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Life Money Travel ...

He and his colleagues described the first male Acanthoxyla, a genus of stick insect from New Zealand that was thought to be exclusively female, from a specimen found on a car in Cornwall, England.