A new mossy stick insect was spotted flaunting its figure in the moist, mossy Chocó forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new species, dubbed Trychopeplus mashpiensis in a new paper in ZooKeys, was ...
Some animals, however, take the art of camouflage to a higher level. Stick insects earn their name from the uncanny resemblance to twigs and branches, allowing them to remain undetected in bushes ...