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Rare animals of 2022: First record of a giant click beetle in S’pore, another green cockroach

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The giant click beetle was found on Oct 16, while the emerald green cockroach was found on July 22.

The giant click beetle was found on Oct 16, while the emerald green cockroach was found on July 22.

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SINGAPORE - This year, Singapore logged the island’s first record of a giant click beetle and the second sighting of a rare emerald green cockroach – one of two kinds of cockroaches in the world of that hue.

The Straits Times highlights four notable records of recent animal sightings reported in the second half of 2022 in Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum’s journal Nature in Singapore.

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