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minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 month agoSo nice the artropodes 300 millon years ago, Millipeds with the size of an car, dragonflies big as seagulls, also nice scorpions and spiders https://discoverwildscience.com/giant-millipede-alive-340-million-years-ago-was-the-size-of-a-car-1-262535/ https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/were-there-fossils-of-giant-insects
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI like how their used up two instances of the prefix ‘mega’ not knowing what there would be discovered next.
minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoAnyway better that these bugs are not the today problem, I don’t really want to find spiders as big as dogs and scorpions of 3 m.
So nice the artropodes 300 millon years ago, Millipeds with the size of an car, dragonflies big as seagulls, also nice scorpions and spiders
I like how their used up two instances of the prefix ‘mega’ not knowing what there would be discovered next.
Anyway better that these bugs are not the today problem, I don’t really want to find spiders as big as dogs and scorpions of 3 m.