Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange body plans over and over again, scientists have discovered. This ...

An international team of researchers led by Sven Bradler at the the University of Göttingen constructed the first phylogenomic tree of these foliage-mimicking insects by analyzing the genes of 38 ...

it is likely to be Merien - she did her PhD in finding out whether stick insects look like sticks to other species. "The way that they look has evolved to work against their predators, so animals ...

However, because rare males are so rare, they have not been studied much. Many species of stick insects, familiar insects with branch-like shapes, are known to reproduce parthenogenetically. Most of ...