'Tree Lobster' Bug Needs Image Help for Survival
In gross science news you may have missed, a massive bug thought to be extinct was found, bred, and will now be re-introduced to its more inhabitable island home after being nearly wiped out by a plague of rats some 95 years ago.
NPR beautifully put together the entire saga of the Australian “tree lobster” bug discovery and return to prominence as the heaviest flightless bug on Earth, and its G*d-damned disgusting. Dryococelus australis was feasted upon (extra crunchy, followed by extra gooey) by black rats accidentally introduced to Lord Howe island, way off the coast of Australia.
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