Rats that escaped from its deck onto Lord Howe Island quickly dominated the local environment, eliminating species lacking natural predators. One of their victims was the stick insect Dryococelus ...

hope for the future of the Lord Howe Island stick insect. When the SS Makambo ran aground on the shore of Lord Howe Island in 1918, there was only one immediate casualty—a passenger who drowned ...

The island’s invertebrates also suffered immensely. The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis)—once a pervasive fixture on the island—was declared extinct on the main island ...

The Lord Howe Island stick insect was once thought to be extinct, before being discovered by chance on Ball’s Pyramid several decades ago. How this flightless phasmid made the journey to this ...

They have a great nickname but their story is an unhappy one. There are only an estimated 30 or less Lord Howe Island stick insects left.