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Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on from the incredible-journey dept.

grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."

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  1. Re:Name by courseofhumanevents · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think it was called anything before it was discovered, actually.

  2. Re:Impressive... by criminy · · Score: 5, Funny

    400 miles is about 640,000 meters

    640k should be enough for anyone.

  3. Re:Impressive... by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can be explained, consider a spherical dragonfly in a vacuum...