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Jurassic insect discovered at Walmart in Arkansas


Jurassic insect discovered at Walmart in Arkansas

In 2012, Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University’s Insect Identification Laboratory, picked up what he thought was an antlion – a fairly common flying insect – on the side of a Walmart in Arkansas. But as it turned out, it was actually a Polystoechotes punctata, or giant lacewing, an insect from the Jurassic period. […]