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Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study


Long thought to be fueled by increased atmospheric oxygen concentration, enormous griffinflies from the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, may have grown large for other reasons.

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