Prehistoric insects

A BULKY centipede-like creature that died out some 300 million years ago is the largest arthropod yet discovered. Paleontologists in Germany examined a partial fossil unearthed near Jena in the east of the country.

The small and odd-looking pterosaur Anurognathus ammoni

Art illustration - Prehistoric Insects - Meganeura: ( "large nerves") is an extinct genus of insects protodonatos Meganeuridae family. Among its species is Meganeura monyi, a kindred with current dragonflies insect, who lived in the Carboniferous period (300 Ma ago). With a wingspan of over 75 cm, it is the largest known species of insects that ever existed on Earth.

Arthropleura (name meaning "Jointed ribs") was a genus of giant herbivorous millipede. It grew to around 6 feet in length, due in part to the high oxygen levels of the Carboniferous period, which allowed this creature, as well as many other contemporary arthropods, to grow to such large sizes. Many fossilized footprints from Arthropleura can been found on the coast of Scotland. By current estimates, it is the largest known land invertebrate discovered to date, and as such, it would have had…

These enormous insects depicted in bad B movies exist mostly in the realm of science fiction. However, insects of giant proportions really did exist 300 million years ago.Also in: Español

Permian of Russia In this somewhat dry setting near a lake, there is a group of Araucaria trees and in the middle distance some proto-gymnosperm trees (noeggerathialian). There are also some cycads and equisetums. A pair of Dimedrodons (Synapsids) bask in the sun. In the extreme foreground resting on the growing tip of a horsetail (equisetum) is a caloneurodean (Paleuthygramma tenuicornis, Paleuthygrammatidae) (these grew to 24mm). Below left, resting on a rock there is a small arachnid of…

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