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Giant Stick Insect Found Hiding in Rainforest May Be Australia's Heaviest

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer. Acrophylla alta, as the species has ...
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New 'Giant Stick' Insect Species Discovered in Australia Has Been Growing For Millions of Years

New 'Giant Stick' Insect Species Discovered in Australia Has Been Growing For Millions of Years originally appeared on Parade. In a rainforest teeming with snakes, spiders, and all manner of hidden ...
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What Is This Massive Stick Insect, and Where Is It Found?

Australia is known for its exceptional biodiversity. The country separated from the supercontinent Gondwana nearly 135 million years ago, and completed its separation from Antarctica over the last 40 ...
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Alien-Looking Insect Is Leaving People Scratching Their Heads

Have you ever come across a bug that was so weird looking that you thought to yourself, "That can't be real!"? That's exactly how I felt when I stumbled across this video that @Barstool Sports posted ...
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People Can’t Get Over the Size of New Stick Insect Species Found in Australia

People Can’t Get Over the Size of New Stick Insect Species Found in Australia originally appeared on PetHelpful. There are some seriously big bugs out there, but none quite like this one! A new ...
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Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce

It’s obvious why a stick insect’s wardrobe is the way it is. Look like a stick, avoid getting eaten. But scientists in Japan noticed that despite their camouflage, stick insects became bird food quite ...
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Odd bugs: Fascinating facts about praying mantises, walking sticks and other unique-looking insects

Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...
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Supersized Stick Bug Discovered In Australia

There is a new monster bug on the block in Australia. Meet the Acrophylla Alta, which was discovered in the canopies of the mountainous wet tropics region of Far North Queensland in northeast ...
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"Extraordinary Power Of Natural Selection": Convergent Evolution Found In Hundreds Of Stick Insect Species

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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Have You Seen This? Hopefully you won't see this giant stick insect in your yard

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...
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Long-legged spiny creature discovered along trail in Ecuador forest. See new species

In the mountain forests of Ecuador, a new species is almost entirely invisible among the trees. Conle OV, Valero P, Hennemann FH (2024) ZooKeys Some members of the animal kingdom are masters of ...