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Sitckbugs are evolved to blend in with trees. This recently discovered one is the heaviest known insect in Australia. Photograph By Ross M. Coupland A thousand meters up in a humid, cloud-covered ...

Some famously celibate stick insects are not quite as sexless as once thought 1. Sex reshuffles the genetic deck, providing new possibilities for adaptation. Without sex, populations adapt more slowly ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A long-standing debate among evolutionary scientists goes something like this: Does evolution happen in a predictable pattern or does it depend on chance events and contingency? That is, if you could ...

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 ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...

Male (top) and female (bottom) Lord Howe Island stick insects from the captive-bred Ball's Pyramid population, also known as "tree lobsters," on a leaf at the Melbourne Zoo. Lord Howe Island Stick ...