{"id":100,"date":"2025-01-15T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:51:15","slug":"insect-remains-hidden-on-secret-island-for-over-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supertrendresponse.co.nz\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/insect-remains-hidden-on-secret-island-for-over-80-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect Remains Hidden on Secret Island for Over 80 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.adiant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/18164902\/shutterstock_70804165.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is left of this ancient volcano, often called \u201cBall\u2019s Pyramid\u201d emerged from the ocean over 7 million years ago. What\u2019s so amazing about this place? It has a secret, at 225 feet above sea level, hanging\u00a0on the rock surface, there is a tiny little bush and under that bush two climbers discovered something on this island that should\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the full story. 13 Miles from Ball\u2019s Pyramid is a larger island called Lord Howe Island. On this island there used to be an insect that was made famous for its gigantic size, its a stick insect that masquerades as a piece of wood and was so large that the Europeans called it a \u201ctree lobster\u201d! As big as a man\u2019s hand it measured about 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.adiant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/01\/18165953\/patrick_custom-3740c16538132c3504d984425c11a12fec3952ec-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a supply ship crashed into Lard Howe Island in 1918, rats that were aboard the ship decimated the population of the insects and they became extinct. After 1920, there wasn\u2019t a single sighting and by 1960 the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryococelus australis, was noted as extinct. But the sticks were never \u201cofficially\u201d declared extinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to 2001, when two Aussie scientists decided to take a closer look at the species or what was left of it at least. \u00a0David Priddel and\u00a0Nicholas Charlie boated over to Ball\u2019s Pyramid from Lord Howe Island, where they proceeded to climb the ancient volcano\u2019s side to about 500 feet, where they discovered a few crickets. Not completely happy with the findings they started to make their way down, where they encountered excrement from a VERY large insect. Since the \u201ctree lobsters\u201d are nocturnal creatures, they came back after dark and investigated. What they found shocked them, it was the thought-to-be extinct giant bugs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is left of this ancient volcano, often called \u201cBall\u2019s Pyramid\u201d emerged from the ocean over 7 million years ago. What\u2019s so amazing about this place? 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