In the rainforests and suburban gardens of Australia, two large stick insects have emerged from the long shadow of scientific assumption — one of them having spent fifty years classified as something it was not. Their discovery, quiet and unhurried as the creatures themselves, reminds us that the catalogue of life on Earth is still very much a work in progress, and that invisibility is not always a matter of remoteness. What we overlook is often not hidden, but simply unseen.
Australian Scientists Discover Two New Stick Insect Species, One Hidden for 50 Years
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