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300 million years ago, Earth was ruled by giant insects – this was a living nightmare!

Imagine stepping into a prehistoric forest where enormous millipedes crawled beneath towering trees and giant dragonfly-like ...
Phys.org

Arthropods inspire interdisciplinary solutions to global challenges, initiative shows

Arthropods are small, but they could play an outsized role in tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. That's the idea behind the Community for Arthropod Research, Education, and Materials ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA’s nuclear Dragonfly copter to search for signs of life on Titan: ‘A lot’s riding on it’

LAUREL, Md. — Ralph Lorenz dreamed up the idea of flying a helicopter through Titan’s thick methane-laden atmosphere back in 2000 in a speculative research paper and a cover story for New Scientist ...
AOL

Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice

Graphic with images of varied invertebrates including a sea slug, a bumblebee, a dragonfly, a woodlouse, a worm and others.Illustration: Petra Korlević/The Guardian Related: ‘You’d want one as a pet’: ...
The Guardian

‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years

Tenacious and confounding, the horseshoe crab pre-dates dinosaurs and has copper-based blood vital to vaccine safety Revealed: the top ten invertebrates of the year Vote for your favourite here They ...
Forbes

Meet The Dragonfly — The World’s Deadliest Hunter With A 95% Kill Rate

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Long before birds ruled the skies, the dragonfly evolved a hunting strategy so effective ...
sci

Giant Scorpions Ruled Ancient Britain during Devonian Period

Paleontologists have confirmed that Praearcturus gigas, a creature that prowled shallow waters during the Devonian period, 415 million years ago, is the largest scorpion ever found. Measuring around 1 ...
Mashable

Where NASA's Dragonfly mission is going, 'We don't need roads'

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineers Max Wolbeck and Daniel Peterson install rotors on a model of half the Dragonfly aircraft for testing. Credit: NASA The team has started assembling ...
Indian Defence Review

Giant Insects Once Roamed the Earth, and Now Scientists Finally Know How They Vanished

300 million years ago, giant insects thrived on Earth, but new research reveals the true reason behind their mysterious disappearance. 300 million years ago, insects were giants. Fossilized ...
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Ancient Insect Size Not Linked to High Oxygen Levels

Three-hundred-million years ago the Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangaea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...
CoinDesk

Crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly raises $650 million despite 'gloom of a bear market'

Dragonfly Capital has closed a $650 million fourth fund, one of the largest recent crypto venture capital raises despite a prolonged industry downturn. Managing partner Haseeb Qureshi said the firm is ...