A grasshopper thought to be extinct for four decades has been rediscovered, scientists recently announced in the Journal of Orthoptera Research. Now known as the Monte Gordo grasshopper ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this moment would mark the only sighting of a species that would soon be ...

The Monte Gordo grasshopper (Eyprepocprifas insularis) has proved to be a rare and elusive species: its last, and, until now, the only sighting was a single specimen found in 1980. This is why ...

Leichhardt's Grasshopper is bright red, blue and orange. Its strong colours are a defence against predators which works so well that this little grasshopper has Attitude - often it doesn't even ...

A Virginia zoologist caught a small, flightless grasshopper that hadn’t been officially documented since 1946. Photo from Demure Storyteller via Unsplash Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours ...