‘Entirety of your hand’: World’s heftiest and most horrifying insect brought back from extinction
📍 Aftermath
{ "epilogue": "A captive-breeding and release program successfully brought the world's heaviest insect, the wētāpunga, back from the brink of extinction after it previously survived on only one island. Over a 15-year period, conservationists released 11,000 captive-bred insects, resulting in four established generations across two islands.
The initiative has been highlighted as a major conservation success story for New Zealand." }
Epilogue added 54m ago, after coverage quieted.
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