The bigger they are, the more we are afraid of them, so imagine this insect slightly longer than the arm of a person of 1m80…
It was long before the dinosaurs. A giant, winged insect terrorized everything that passed near it. Meganeura is a giant dragonfly that could fly at more than 30 km/h and lived from the Carboniferous to the Permian.
In 1940, traces of this ancient insect (now extinct) were first observed in Oklahoma, in the southern United States. It is a fossil of the largest ever discovered wing of this insect that has been found, 275 million years old.
Meganeura had 4 wings and measured 75 centimeters in wingspan, which makes it six times larger than most dragonflies we know. For comparison, today this insect would be the size of a falcon! To learn more, you can read our article on 10 huge insects.
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