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Giant Jurassic-Era Insect Discovered at Arkansas Walmart — But Man 'Forgot About It for Almost a Decade' Michael Skvarla stopped at the store to purchase some milk in 2012 when he saw the bug on ...
The largest genome of any insect, seven times the size of the human genome, was recently discovered in a grasshopper. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers from the German Leibniz ...
The giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, belongs to a family of insects that predates the dinosaurs. After vanishing in the 1950s, one specimen has been rediscovered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Little did he know that years later, the giant flying bug was a "super-rare" Jurassic-era insect. A zoom call lesson. The scientist originally thought the bug he plucked from the Walmart's ...
This giant lacewing may hint at hidden populations of the insect in Arkansas. Michael Skvarla/Penn State Back in 2012, entomologist Michael Skvarla stopped at a Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas ...