Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...

Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

Giant dragonflies once roamed Earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct

Scientists thought giant dragonflies couldn’t survive in today’s atmosphere – but a study of dozens of insect species shows ...
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Rare, Fragile, and Expensive: Why Some Giant Stick Insects Sell for Over $1,000

Rare giant stick insects now command market prices exceeding $1,000 for a single adult. These massive insects possess a fragile physiology that contradicts their imposing physical size. Some giant ...
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Jewel-like ‘giant insects' are fluttering for The Flower Fields

BUZZY BEAUTIES? Flowers are famous for attracting little winged things, but a less common sight is when sizable buzzers buzz by a blooming hillside. Like really sizable, the sorts of bugs not seen in ...
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This ugly river creature hides under rocks - then turns into a giant flying insect

He flips a rock and finds a creature that looks almost evil: thick-bodied, armored, and armed with huge pinchers. But this is ...
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Rare, Fragile, and Expensive: Why Some Giant Stick Insects Sell for Over $1,000

Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters of camouflage. Giant stick insects are some of the most expensive insects ...