Its 63 cm (24.8-inch) wingspan almost puts it in the same league as the long extinct Meganeura, though thankfully minus the latter's reported appetite for other insects and small amphibians.

Meganeura, for example, was a dragonfly that lived 300 million years ago and each of its wings was the length of my arm. Why do such behemoths no longer exist?

Animals include trilobites, aquatic snails, and a cartilaginous fish in the water below and a giant Meganeura dragonfly in the foreground. In the second panel oak leaves and acorns depict the ...

During the Carboniferous period, the Meganeura dragonfly had a wingspan of 28 inches. The Arthropleura, a relative of the millipede, could grow over 8 feet long.

Enter the massive dragonflies of the genus Meganeura that occurred during the Carboniferous, approximately 300 million years ago. With wingspans of up to 65 centimeters (25.6 inches), Meganeura was ...

The studio decided to name the craft Meganeuropsis, after the meganeura, a prehistoric dragonfly. The orinthopter lacks some of the dragonfly’s gracefulness, but there’s no denying the ...