Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." Stick insects keep evolving to have the ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

Once thought extinct, the world's rarest insect – nicknamed the 'tree lobster' – was rediscovered on a remote sea stack.

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects ...

Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This evolutionary blueprint has enabled researchers to predict the critters' next ...