New giant insect discovered in the Australian rainforest could be country's heaviest

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curl-6 said:

haxxiy said:

How do you miss something this large for so long?

It's amazing how easy it is for animals to go undiscovered in difficult terrain far from civilization; the Saola, a cow/deer like creature nearly a meter tall, went unknown to science until 1992:

The deadleaf spider went unknown until 2015 but that's cause it was so good at being a dead leaf. No matter how vast the terrain or how inhospitable someone had to have come across that cow deer, perhaps we should say it was only unknown to registry until 1992.