Considered extinct for over 80 years, a chance find on a sea stack where little survives has sparked hope for the future of ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" ...

Stick and leaf insects evolved 20 shared body features for camouflage, aiding survival. Scientists found these traits across ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick ...

Convergent evolution is when similar features that have a similar form or function evolve in species from different periods ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

"In all these areas of the world it looks like many different body forms repeatedly evolved independently," Boisseau said. A giant prickly stick insect (Extatosoma tiaratum). Habitat was a key ...

and a "lobster-like" appearance seen in the "tree lobster" stick insect. The team found that characteristics such as body shape tended to be more similar in creatures that shared an ancestor ...

where we have kept stick insects for upwards of twenty-five years, incidentally, without having detected a male.