The specimens were then sent to experts around Australia, who are working to describe any new species collected. The students collected more than 12,000 insect specimens, including 5,465 different ...

The insect, also known as the Lord Howe Island phasmid, is native to a remote archipelago in the Tasman Sea off Australia. The uninhabited archipelago was discovered in 1778. Rats that arrived ...

The specimens were then sent to experts around Australia, who are working to describe any new species collected. The students collected more than 12,000 insect specimens, including 5,465 different ...

Studies indicate insect populations are declining, and species are going extinct every week in Australia. But scientists have only described about a third of Australia's estimated total of insect ...

As the Northern Territory's principal entomologist, Brian Thistleton is the custodian of an important collection — a database ...