Tree Lobsters

• While they were thought to have been the unfortunate victims of non-native rats, a rare species of so-called tree lobsters has been found surviving on Balls Pyramid, part of an old, inactive volcano near Australia.
(Huffington Post)
• In gross science news you may have missed, a massive bug thought to be extinct was found, bred and will now be re-introduced to its more inhabitable island home after being nearly wiped out by a plague of rats some 95 years ago.
(Mediabistro.com)
• The growing population of the human race is putting ever increasing pressure on the world's resources. Be that land, raw materials, and wildlife. Populations of different species are diminishing as we move in and take over their natural environments.
(Geek.Com)
• There, the ships crew was received by the islands famous Dryococelus australis, a positively massive, hand-sized species of stick insect known to Europeans as tree lobsters. But these impressive bugs were not long for this world.
(io9.com)
• Its a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a tree lobster because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton.
(NPR News)
• OR Jumbo Shrimp Lobster Bienville: A 6-8 oz. lobster tail 3 jumbo shrimp topped with Maple Trees Bienville sauce and bubbly provolone cheese. We will be accepting reservations for ALL size parties.
(Examiner)
• While Linda was examining the furniture and furnishings, I wandered out along the path lined with rocks and shadowed by birch trees.
(Columbia Star)
• Not only are most of the trees and poles gone due to Ivan During a dinner of crab cakes with chardonnay lobster sauce at the Cracked Conch, the waiter tells me how waves snapped off their dock's concrete pilings like breadsticks.
(msnbc.com)