Tree Lobster: The Resurrection, or six legged giant finds secret hideaway hides for 80 years
npr.orgIs it odd that I’m touched by this story about a giant arthropod?
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway...
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“On 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, lobster-like exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world…”
via NPR
