Giant stick insects found on Lord Howe Island a genetic match for 'extinct' phasmids

Scientists confirm creatures discovered on Ball’s Pyramid in 2001 are the same species rats were believed to have killed off a century earlierScientists have confirmed that giant insects found on a rocky outcrop off Lord Howe Island are a genetic match for the island’s stick insects that were believed to have gone extinct almost 100 years earlier.The species were assumed to be one and the same. However significant morphological differences between the Lord Howe Island stick insects c