The Conversation

A large cockroach thought extinct since the 1930s was just rediscovered on a small island in Australia

In 1887, Australian Museum scientists undertook a pioneering expedition to Lord Howe Island, a tiny patch of land off the east coast of Australia. Among their many discoveries, they recorded “a large ...
Business Insider

A cockroach on a plane is going viral for appearing to stay alive and twitching while lodged in a plane window next to one fascinated passenger

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A cockroach stowing away on a plane has gone viral after a passenger filmed it crawling inside a ...
The Hill

Cockroach interrupts State Dept briefing: ‘It’s a rather large one’

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller momentarily interrupted a press briefing Thursday afternoon when he noticed a cockroach crawling on the wall near a reporter’s head. “I hate to interrupt, ...
New York Post

‘Big’ cockroach crashes State Department press briefing, alarms spokesman in awkward scene

He didn’t mean to bug. An unwanted cockroach encroached upon State Department spokesman Mathew Miller’s press briefing Thursday, prompting him to interrupt his remarks and plot a way to terminate the ...

How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?

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