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The giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart is now housed at Penn State, where scientists and students have access to it for more research.

The giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart is now housed at Penn State, where scientists and students have access to it for more research.

A bug expert found a huge winged insect—misidentified as your average dragonfly—on the side of an Arkansas Walmart building years ...

The giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart is now housed at Penn State, where scientists and students have access to it for more research.

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In 2012, Michael Skvarla noticed a massive dead insect outside a Walmart in Arkansas. The Director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab thought it looked interesting and took it home. However, it was not until recently that the scientist realized he had picked up a rare, Jurassic-era bug.

A university scientist is speaking out about an insect he encountered at a Walmart store in the United States that he misidentified for several years but recently discovered was a rare specimen from the Jurassic period.

The giant lacewing was commonly found in eastern North America but mysteriously disappeared in the 1950s.

The giant lacewing was commonly found in eastern North America but mysteriously disappeared in the 1950s.

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.