The Terrifying World of Giant Insects: What Was Earth Like During the Carboniferous Period?

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The Terrifying World of Giant Insects: What Was Earth Like During the Carboniferous Period?
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350 million years ago, long before the dinosaur era, planet Earth was a very different place. Endless tropical swamps teeming with towering ferns, intense humidity, and an high oxygen level in the air created ideal conditions for flourishing life; though not the kind we know today. The Carboniferous Period was a strange, otherworldly era dominated by giant insects.
Everpresent swampy tropical forests absorbed carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and released immense amounts of oxygen into the atmosphere. This raised the oxygen level to a record 35% – more than one and a half times the safe level for humans.
Such high oxygen levels became a powerful energy source for living organisms in this primeval jungle world. It was the perfect time for early vertebrates that were beginning to evolve but haven’t quite adapted to life on land, as well as various invertebrates that grew to astonishing sizes.
It was a time of aggressive centipedes as long as a car, dragonflies soaring through the sky that resembled modern hawks, and giant spiders and scorpions the size of a bull terrier, dominating the swampy jungles. The Carboniferous was an epoch when giant insects ruled the planet, transforming it into your worst nightmare.

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33 thoughts on “The Terrifying World of Giant Insects: What Was Earth Like During the Carboniferous Period?”

  1. I have a question:

    So, the prefix rhino means nose (I know this because I learned it in Medical Assistant school) and saurus almost always refers to a dinosaur (like tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus).

    So, with this knowledge in mind, my question is;

    Does this mean that a rhinoceros is technically a living dinosaur? Or at least a relative of dinosaurs?

    Or do they just sound the same but aren’t actually related at all.

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  8. I have a theory: Before the humans ever existed the earth was "larger" and all that animals or that prahistoric era creatures are actually the same size as today but humans are the only thing that got bigger over time and when we got developed we took their space and then they were just erased and turned into smaller versions of them selfs. I know this dosent have sense at all and I know that you are trying to read this what I typed and you are thinking that am probably high right now. But I aint high this was the only way how I culd put this things up

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  13. Random thought while watching this , realising that a lot of dinosaurs were most likely birds , it fascinates me how In the bible god creates fish and then birds before other animals and mammals .

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