Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect

[1srelluc]

A 2012 trip to a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart to pick up some milk turned out to be one for the history books. A giant bug that stopped a scientist in his tracks as he walked into the store and he ended up taking home turned out to be a rare Jurassic-era flying insect.

Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, found the mysterious bug – an experience that he says he remembers "vividly."

"I was walking into Walmart to get milk and I saw this huge insect on the side of the building," he said in a press release from Penn State. "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."

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Giant Flying Bug Found at Walmart Store Is Really 'Super-Rare' Insect

 

[JGalt]

‘Super-rare’ Jurassic-era bug discovered during Walmart shopping trip

It was probably a time-traveling bug. It came here from millions of years in the past to warn us of something that's about to happen. But someone stuck a pin through its ass and mounted it on a board. Poor time-traveling bug.

Now we'll never know what's about to happen.

 

[occupied]

Click bait crap. Most insects predate vertebrates by many millions of years,

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Click bait crap. Most insects predate vertebrates by many millions of years,

Like Biden does.

 

[1srelluc]

‘Super-rare’ Jurassic-era bug discovered during Walmart shopping trip

It was probably a time-traveling bug. It came here from millions of years in the past to warn us of something that's about to happen. But someone stuck a pin through its ass and mounted it on a board. Poor time-traveling bug.

Now we'll never know what's about to happen.

As long as it's from our own dimension.

 

[1srelluc]

Click bait crap. Most insects predate vertebrates by many millions of years,

I bet you are fun at parties.....Go be a stick in the mud someplace else.

 

[odanny]

How funny is it that he forgot about it for a decade? So what made him decide to investigate what it was? The link is broken.

 

[occupied]

I bet you are fun at parties.....Go be a stick in the mud someplace else.

I forgot most of you prefer click-bait to scientific accuracy. Carry on with your ignorance.

 

[1srelluc]

How funny is it that he forgot about it for a decade? So what made him decide to investigate what it was? The link is broken.

Try this.....Lots of sources on it.

Giant Flying Bug Found at Walmart Store Is Really 'Super-Rare' Insect

 

[1srelluc]

I forgot most of you prefer click-bait to scientific accuracy. Carry on with your ignorance.

OK, so fuck-off then.

BTW ass-wipe, given the number of insect species that go extinct every year this one looks to have defied the odds.

 

[whitehall]

What other Jurassic life can be found in Arkansas besides Bill Clinton?

 

[occupied]

OK, so fuck-off then.

BTW ass-wipe, given the number of insect species that go extinct every year this one looks to have defied the odds.

Can you have a discussion about insects without being a fucking prick? I wasn't trying to insult you with my comments but your fragile little ego apparently sees any disagreement as an insult.

 

[1srelluc]

Can you have a discussion about insects without being a fucking prick? I wasn't trying to insult you with my comments but your fragile little ego apparently sees any disagreement as an insult.

What part of fuck-off did you not understand?

 

[occupied]

What part of fuck-off did you not understand?

Make me.

 

[1srelluc]

Make me.

Meh, if you want to continue to let folks know how much of a no fun/stick in the mud you are then by all means go ahead.

 

[occupied]

Meh, if you want to continue to let folks know how much of a no fun stick in the mud you are then by all means go ahead.

You're not having fun? I totally enjoy puncturing internet stupidity.

 

[odanny]

It's a Giant Lacewing, I'm not sure it surviving benefits anyone. You ever see these Mayflies near a river when they are mating? Covers your car in guts.

 

[1srelluc]

It's a Giant Lacewing, I'm not sure it surviving benefits anyone. You ever see these Mayflies near a river when they are mating? Covers your car in guts.

Great panfish bait.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Kills Jurassic Bugs DEAD!

 

[toobfreak]

Giant Flying Bug Found at Arkansas Walmart​

Such a shame he had to kill it. It might have fed a dozen Biden Supporters!