The idyllic Lord Howe Island community has been rocked after a local man admitted to targeting young women working at resorts, where he raped one woman and sexually assaulted another. Tyrin Thompson ...

IN AN AGE OF CONSTANT connectivity, Lord Howe Island offers a calm counterpoint. There is no mobile reception, so random spam calls and incessant notifications do not follow you here. It’s also ...

the tarsier is a very peculiar small animal.in fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult men's hand.© Tesalonika tengker/Shutterstock.com True extinction is final, a point ...

Serco has been selected for the design and build of a new freight vessel to support World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island’s critical freight needs for the next 40 years. The project, part of the NSW ...

Bugs are scary. But at least we can take solace in the fact that they’re small, right? Well, the goliath stick insect might have something to say about that assumption. Watch this video, if you dare.

A dejected Eddie Howe departs at the end of Newcastle's 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford Carl Recine/Getty Images Eddie Howe’s 200th match in charge of Newcastle United was a microcosm of this maddening ...

Presumed extinct for nearly a century, one of the world’s rarest insects was quietly clinging to life in a place no one expected. Then in 2001, an unlikely discovery stunned the scientific community.

SAN DIEGO — In a huge win for wildlife, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has added its first-ever insect to their Frozen Zoo. There are over 11 thousand cell lines, representing more than 1,300 ...

Peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predator The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry ...

After seeing a picture of the stick insect on social media, the researchers spent days trying to find and collect it for further research. Ross M. Coupland Scientists in Australia say they’ve found a ...

In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new species of stick insect they believe is the heaviest ever found in the country ...