As far as anyone knew, the greater chestnut weevil — a beetle about the size of a quarter — was long gone, a victim of the same blight that has killed an estimated 4 billion chestnut trees in the U.S. in less than a century.

Because the beetle feeds on chestnuts and uses them to reproduce, most assumed as the chestnuts died in the eastern part of the country so did the beetle.

The last time anyone had definitively seen one was in 1997 when a researcher found a specimen in Georgia, and even that one had been locked away in a drawer and forgotten about.

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But thanks to a pair of scientists at the University of Memphis, biology professor Duane McKenna and doctoral student Michael Charles, we now know that the little critter with the giant snout still lives.

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