Have you ever heard of the iconic leaf insect? Worth hundreds—even thousands—of dollars, these fascinating bugs can ...

Now, scientists know that the only living group of Lord Howe Island stick insects cling to the side of a rocky island located ...

Rare and endangered animals are often hidden away in hard-to-reach locations and might require trekking through a jungle or hacking through thick vegetation to catch a glimpse. Their limited ...

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...

Scientists have managed to find a rare insect after it supposedly went extinct more than two decades ago. The Behningia baei, a species of mayfly that hasn't been seen since 2002, were rediscovered in ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

For nearly a century, it was thought to be gone forever. The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis), once one of the most common insects on its native island in the Tasman Sea, vanished ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this moment would mark the only sighting of a species that would soon be considered ...