why would you describe yourself as old and new?

Question: why would you describe yourself as old and new?
- Keywords:
  Emperor dragonfly,
  old and new
Asked by hannahannah to Emperor Dragonfly on 8 Dec 2017.
- Emperor Dragonfly answered on 8 Dec 2017:
  
  Adult dragonflies (the ones we see flying above ponds) emerge each year in late spring / summer from the water transform into new animals – they are most brightly coloured and active when first emerged – so every dragonfly you see is NEW(a maximum of 3-4 months old in their adult form).
  
  But fossils of dragonflies that look pretty much the same as the ones we have today can be 300 million years old, so as a group of species, dragonflies are ancient, hence OLD as well!