A new mossy stick insect was spotted flaunting its figure in the moist, mossy Chocó forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new species, dubbed Trychopeplus mashpiensis in a new paper in ZooKeys, was ...

There are about 3,000 stick insects in the world. The Vietnamese Walking Stick is at the Lake Superior Zoo. The Lake Superior Zoo is home to a whole colony of Vietnamese Walking Stick Bugs.

Some animals, however, take the art of camouflage to a higher level. Stick insects earn their name from the uncanny resemblance to twigs and branches, allowing them to remain undetected in bushes ...