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Stick Insect
(aussie.zone)
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A series of Tweets, each a reply to the previous.
- ABC News @ABC: Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country. [With a picture of a brown stick insect among some green leaves.]
- mary @theoceanblooms: can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now
- soul nate @MNateShyamalan: Entomologist here ๐โโ๏ธ๐ค๐ Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it's THIS big. The answer might surprise you more ๐ Let's dive in ๐๐งต (1/?)
- soul nate @MNateShyamalan: he look like stick (2/2)
Iโd be terrible at discovering new species because I would assume anything I found was already discovered and exhaust myself looking for it in databases.
That's probably a big part of why this took so long to be described by science.