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Christopher Callipygian
@chris.clapham.org

Great piece in SpaceDaily today about Meganeuropsis permiana, a species that was part of an order that was a precursor to dragonflies, helpfully illustrated with a fantasy picture of a flying dragon. spacedaily.com/t-the-larges...

spacedaily.comThe largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we br...The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet. It flew in the Early Permian, roughly 285 million yea...

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