Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous wingspan of nearly 2.5 feet. Different from modern dragonflies in its size ...
In this episode writer Katherine Rundell looks at the dragonfly - an insect with a prehistoric past. Around 300 million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures called meganeura had wingspans up to two ...
The reconstructed fossil claw of ancient sea scorpion, Jaekelopterus rhenaniae (e) and its size relative to a human male and to the sea scorpion (a), the trilobite Isotelus rex (b), the dragonfly ...