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The giant insect longer than a hot dog crawling around America

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny ...
New York Post

Stick insect — as hefty as a golf ball — could be heaviest ever found in Australian rainforest

This Aussie bug is breaking records — and possibly a few branches. Scientists have discovered a hefty new species of stick insect in a remote Australian rainforest, and it could be the heaviest ever ...
USA Today

See video of the heaviest stick insect ever discovered in Australia

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...
Yahoo

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 ...
CNN

Meet the new species of giant stick insect that weighs about the same as a golf ball

In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new species of stick insect they believe is the heaviest ever found in the country ...
WFLA News Channel 8

‘Australia’s heaviest insect’: Researchers discover gigantic stick bug

ATHERTON, Au. (WFLA) — A supersized stick insect that was discovered in a northern Queensland rainforest has been dubbed Australia’s heaviest insect. This winged insect was discovered by a team of ...
New Scientist

New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia

A newly named species of giant stick insect found in Australia’s Wet Tropics rainforests is thought to be the heaviest insect ever found on the continent. Acrophylla alta weighs 44 grams, around the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Gigantic ‘Walking Stick’ Discovered in Australia Might Be the Continent’s Heaviest Insect

After seeing a picture of the stick insect on social media, the researchers spent days trying to find and collect it for further research. Ross M. Coupland Scientists in Australia say they’ve found a ...
IFLScience

"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 ...

How The World’s Rarest Insect Came Back From The Dead. Hint: It Was Rediscovered On A Volcano

Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.
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People Can’t Get Over the Size of New Stick Insect Species Found in Australia

There are some seriously big bugs out there, but none quite like this one! A new species of stick insect was recently discovered in Australia, and it’s giving people the creeps. ABC News shared a ...