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  • Supersized stick insect discovered in Wet Tropics

    08/01/2025 12:36:53 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Phys.Org ^ | August 01, 2025 | James Cook University
    A JCU researcher has helped discover a new species of stick insect in the Atherton tablelands. Credit: James Cook University ====================================================================== James Cook University researcher Professor Angus Emmott helped identify the new Acrophylla alta species and explained that the most surprising feature of this giant stick insect was its weight, which, at around 44 g, is slightly less than a golf ball. Details of the discovery have been published in the journal Zootaxa. "There are longer stick insects out there [in the region], but they're fairly light-bodied," he said. "From what we know to date, this is Australia's heaviest insect."...