Eons
S01E12 The Age of Giant Insects
Insects vastly outnumber humans, and we often delude ourselves into believing we dominate them simply because of our size. However, insects and other arthropods didn't always remain tiny. Around 315 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, they were not just plentiful; they were also gigantic.
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The Trouble With Trilobites
When Did the First Flower Bloom?
The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
The Story of Saberteeth
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
The Extinction That Never Happened
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
The Age of Giant Insects
History's Most Powerful Plants
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
When The Earth Was Purple
'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
When Whales Walked
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
A Brief History of Geologic Time
The Search for the Earliest Life
The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
The Last Time the Globe Warmed
What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
When Giant Fungi Ruled