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TIL Key's matchstick grasshopper, native to Australia, was rediscovered in 2019 after having not seen since 1967. It is flightless, and unlike most other grasshopper species, it is active during the winter. This insect's unique chromosomes were studied extensively by early evolutionary biologists.

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