The Lord Howe Stick Insect
These insects grow so large, that they were once known as “tree lobsters.” However even a giant size couldn’t save the tropical bugs from hungry rats, which were introduced by humans in the early 1900s. For almost 50 years, everyone assumed they were extinct, then a handful of survivors remained living under a single bush, clinging to life of a 225-foot-tall rocky outcropping that juts out of the sea. Such troopers.
The Lord Howe Stick Insect
Chacoan peccary
By size, the Chacoan is the largest species of peccary, which is primarily a beast that resembles a pig but hails from a different continent and cannot be domesticated. They were first described in 1930 based only on fossil records, therefore they were believed to be extinct. Then in 1975, a few rather surprised researchers discovered there was one alive in the Chaco region of Paraguay. Currently, there are around 3,000 known Chacoan peccary.
Chacoan Peccary
