The rediscovery of a thought-to-be-extinct species of giant stick insect on a remote mountain fortress in the Pacific was one of the most heartwarming conservation tales of 2012, so it's being turned into an animated documentary.
The creatures were found on a 500-metre tall mountain, sticking like a needle out of the Pacific, known as Ball's Pyramid. Their originally-known habitat, Lord Howe Island, was overrun by ship's rats in the early 1900s.
By: Duncan Geere,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/06/sticky-animation
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