{"id":384175,"date":"2017-10-05T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=79654bed6276a7fc0b3039239a213762"},"modified":"2017-10-05T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T16:00:06","slug":"once-declared-extinct-lord-howe-island-stick-insects-really-do-live-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=384175","title":{"rendered":"Once declared extinct, Lord Howe Island stick insects really do live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Howe Island stick insects were once numerous on the tiny crescent-shaped island off the coast of Australia for which they are named. The insects, which can measure up to 6 inches in length, don&#8217;t resemble sticks so much as tree lobsters, as they are also known. After ships accidentally introduced rats to the island about a century ago, the Lord Howe Island stick insects quickly disappeared. They were later declared extinct, only to be found again decades later living on Ball&#8217;s Pyramid, a sheer volcanic stack about 12 miles away. But those newfound insects didn&#8217;t look quite the same as older museum specimens, raising doubts about the nature of their true identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Howe Island stick insects were once numerous on the tiny crescent-shaped island off the coast of Australia for which they are named. The insects, which can measure up to 6 inches in length, don&#8217;t resemble sticks so much as tree lobsters, as they a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384176,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384175\/revisions\/384176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}