Twig mimicry is most common and diversified in Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects), a group of iconic models for understanding the evolution of camouflage and mimicry among insects. Extant stick and ...
Several stick insect fossils from the Mesozoic: (a) Adjacivena grossa sp. nov. and (b) Ambrotophasma vetulum gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (~165 Ma); (c) ...
A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...