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Stick insect comeback News

by David Shaw, 4 September 2015 | 1 comments

A large insect on a person's hand

For millions of years, stick insects roamed the beautiful Lord Howe Island. Then one fateful day in 1918, a ship ran aground and fleeing rats decided to make the island home – and stick insects their dinner. Within a few years, people believed the insects were extinct.

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