On Jan. 29, 2016, the San Diego Zoo became home to 300 eggs from the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect. The eggs were flown here from Australia’s Melbourne Zoo in a journey ...

The rare Lord Howe Island stick insect, also known as "tree lobsters," were believed to be extinct until a few were rediscovered in 2001. ... Insect eggs hatch into nymphs, ...

Fewer than 30 adult stick insects are left on Ball's Pyramid, per the Conversation, making it perhaps the rarest insect on earth. Now, researchers want to bring the stick bug back to Lord Howe Island.

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year, plus alert you to major breaking news. Female Lord Howe Island stick insects have laid more than 500 eggs ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect, considered extinct for years, still walks—or crawls—the Earth. Hungry rodents diminished their numbers long ago.

A critically endangered stick insect is making a new home at the San Diego Zoo. Last weekend, the zoo’s entomology department received 300 eggs for the Lord Howe Island stick insect, a large ...

In 2003, scientists scaled its sheer cliffs in search of the only thing more bizarre than the island itself: the Lord Howe Island stick insect, so named because it is, as promised, rather stick-like.

If you haven’t heard of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, you have missed out on one of the most remarkable conservation stories of the decade. This week’s news is that breeding colonies of ...

Lord Howe Island stick insects were once numerous on the tiny crescent-shaped island off the coast of Australia for which they are named. The insects, which can measure up to 6 inches in length ...

Green when young, and about the size of an adult human's hand when full-grown, Dryococelus australis is more commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect, or the tree lobster. Tiny eggs ...

A large stick insect from a remote Australian island is back from the dead. It's hard to miss a Lord Howe Island stick insect, sometimes called a "tree lobster." Their blackish brown bodies grow ...

Researchers use genetic sequencing of museum specimens to confirm that the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once thought to be extinct, survived by hiding out on a nearby island In the 1960s, rock ...