The Lord Howe stick insect is officially back from the dead
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IT LIVES Although darker than those found on Lord Howe Island, these stick insects, from nearby Ball’s Pyramid, are the same…
IT LIVES Although darker than those found on Lord Howe Island, these stick insects, from nearby Ball’s Pyramid, are the same…
WIKIMEDIA, GRANITETHIGHSA population of Lord Howe Island stick insects (Dryococelus australis), also known as tree lobsters…
A stick insect. A tree lobster. Whatever you may call it, it is is certainly not extinct.
Not long after the insects were believed extinct, climbers found dead tree lobsters on Ball’s Pyramid, a sheer rock cliff of an…