Stick insects may have done what biologists once thought was impossible: lose something as complicated as a wing in the course of evolution but recover it millions of years later.
STICKS THAT FLY. A female Phasma gigas, almost a foot long, displays wings that researchers say probably reappeared after ancestors went through an era of winglessness.
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