Researcher stumbles upon 'super rare' insect at Arkansas Walmart that dates back to Jurassic period
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A researcher and professor who encountered an insect at an Arkansas Walmart discovered while teaching an online course that he had stumbled upon a rare Jurassic-era creature.
"I thought it looked interesting, so I put it in my hand and did the rest of my shopping with it between my fingers. I got home, mounted it, and promptly forgot about it for almost a decade." Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
Skvarla at first misidentified the bug but later discovered while teaching an online course at Penn State in 2020 that the specimen was a Polystoechotes punctata, or giant lacewing, which is an insect that dates back to the Jurassic period of about 150 million years ago, according to scientists.
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