In a rainforest teeming with snakes, spiders, and all manner of hidden beasts, a massive newly discovered insect is unlike anything Australian scientists have ever seen. Researchers in Queensland’s ...

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 ...

A previously unknown giant stick insect has been discovered in the high-altitude rainforests of Australia — and it may be the heaviest insect ever recorded in the country. The colossal critter, which ...

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer. Acrophylla alta, as the species has ...

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Australia’s heaviest insect was discovered in a rainforest. Scientists say the Acrophylla alta is less than the size of a golf ball. Researchers found a huge bug was found in a rainforest, and it's ...

Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalized thousands of precious Australian butterfly specimens, ...

LOS ANGELES - Australian entomologists have named a new fly species after drag queen legend RuPaul. In a press release published on Wednesday, Australia’s national science agency announced that a ...

New 'Giant Stick' Insect Species Discovered in Australia Has Been Growing For Millions of Years originally appeared on Parade. In a rainforest teeming with snakes, spiders, and all manner of hidden ...