The giant insect, native to New Zealand, weighs roughly as much as a chicken egg and was reduced to a single-island population before conservation efforts ...

University of Sydney entomologists have reworked the classification of Australia’s giant Anchiale stick insects, and a group ...

Australia's stick insects have been photographed millions of times, studied in museums, and kept as pets, yet scientists just realized something fundamental about them has been wrong all along.

Captive breeding has helped New Zealand’s largest giant wētā establish new wild populations, with at least four generations now born on two islands.

Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a ...

Giant water bugs are ruthless predators capable of killing frogs and salamanders, yet males of this species devote weeks of exhausting effort to a surprisingly tender task. The reason they do it ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

Have you ever wondered what insect detectives do? Here, we share the findings of some fascinating research on stick insects in Australia. Despite the fact that thousands of these creatures have been ...