Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
“Here’s the story: About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there’s a bigger island, called Lord Howe Island.
On Lord Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It’s a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a “tree lobster” because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world. Local fishermen used to put them on fishing hooks and use them as bait.” click here for the rest of the story
Good Morning Gloucester 
Hope is the thing with feathers…or sometimes it’s a giant black insect. It’s fascinating to think of an a supposedly extinct species coming back. Biodiversity is the hope of the world. Now if someone would only find a passenger pigeon or two…
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Cool story. They need to swap out the guitar music to some heavy metal to totally sell the islanders on their new companions. Or maybe they taste like lobster!
Meanwhile Russian scientists have isolated cells from 10,000 year old buried frozen wooly mammoths and are planning to grow a real one. They have already done it to some cells recovered from a 40,000 year old ice age plant. Since man was responsible for wiping out this bug (almost) and also the wooly mammoth we should bring both back. (Just not in my backyard.)
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Thank you for sharing Paul–I LOVE this story.
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Tree lobster says, ‘man need to pluck unibrow’.
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