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For more than four decades, scientists believed it was gone forever. No sightings. No evidence. No surviving populations. An ...

Rare giant stick insects now command market prices exceeding $1,000 for a single adult. These massive insects possess a fragile physiology that contradicts their imposing physical size. Some giant ...

The evolution of sex remains one of biology's greatest puzzles. While sexual reproduction dominates across the animal kingdom ...

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 ...

A thousand meters up in a humid, cloud-covered forest, amidst a slew of twigs and limbs, an onlooker spotted something different—this branch had legs. But even for a stick insect, a forest dweller ...

New environments. New challenges. New insects. National Geographic’s A Real Bug’s Life is back for a second season full of tiny insects attempting to survive in vast and complex worlds. Dr. Tim ...

Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters of camouflage. Giant stick insects are some of the most expensive insects ...

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 ...