Dinosaur-era Dragonfly Discovery Marks a Canadian First

A "tasty raptor snack," scientists say.

Illuminating a 30-million-year gap in dragonfly history, McGill researchers discovered a new species of dragonfly in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.

The Cretaceous-era fossil marks a Canadian first. Its wingspan was about the width of a human hand, making it relatively small, but probably "a tasty raptor snack."

“We were excavating an area where many leaf fossils had been found by cracking rocks. When the partial wing was uncovered, we were taken by surprise as we were not expecting to find any insects there.” 

— André Mueller, Master's Student

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