After conservation efforts that lasted for more than a decade, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is finally bringing the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insects to the forefront.

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...

The two insects look different morphologically, which raised questions about whether they were the same species. The OIST researchers confirmed with next generation sequencing that the insects' DNA ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought to be extinct for many years until several of the species were discovered on a nearby 'sea stack' in 2001. NBC Universal, Inc. For years, scientists ...