A bug expert found a huge winged insect—misidentified as your average dragonfly—on the side of an Arkansas Walmart building years ago. The flying bug was, actually, far from average and turned out to be a Jurassic-era relic, the first of its kind found in the state.
Prior to this epiphany, the specimen was mounted and forgotten for almost 10 years. Michael Skvarla, now director of Penn State’s Insect Identification Lab, first saw the insect on the side of the well-lit store in Fayetteville while buying milk one evening in 2012. At the time, he was a doctoral student at the University of Arkansas.
