If a nickname has the word “lobster” in it, you know it’s going to be big. So it is for the Lord Howe Island stick insect, affectionately known as the “tree lobster.” Once so plentiful in the forested areas of Lord Howe Island, located several miles off the coast of Australia, that fishermen used them as bait, sightings of these stick insects declined precipitously—and by the early 1930s, they were presumed extinct. Find out more!
