Researchers have identified three fossil insects, including a 40-million-year-old extinct ant, inside two pieces of amber that belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The amber, housed in Weimar, had ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

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Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Fig.1: Reconstruction of the fossil moth lacewing Dryadithone cretacea, preserved in approximately 99-million-year-old Kachin amber. Its broad, leaf-shaped forewings closely resemble flowering plant ...

The post The 'Tree Lobster' Was Thought Extinct. Now It Could Return Home appeared first on A-Z Animals. A stick insect with an aristocratic name and a challenging back story may be poised to make a ...

Tucked deep in Fernbank’s WildWoods trail, Levon Biss’ special touring macrophotography exhibit “Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril” features large prints of the United Kingdom photographer’s ...

The Hawaiian islands are known as the most isolated group of inhabited islands on the planet. The insects and animals that reached Hawaii millions of years ago evolved completely away from the rest of ...