Sitckbugs are evolved to blend in with trees. This recently discovered one is the heaviest known insect in Australia. Photograph By Ross M. Coupland A thousand meters up in a humid, cloud-covered ...

To Alex Wild, the millions of bugs that surround him in jars, boxes, shelves and slabs of amber tell the story of a tiny world with too many wonders for anyone to get bored. Wild is the curator of ...

A thousand meters up in a humid, cloud-covered forest, amidst a slew of twigs and limbs, an onlooker spotted something different—this branch had legs. But even for a stick insect, a forest dweller ...