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Giant dragonflies with wingspans longer than your arm were real.

So why did prehistoric bugs get so huge… and why can’t it happen again?

In this video, we dive back 300 million years to the Carboniferous Period—a world of swamp forests, oxygen-rich air, and insects the size of birds. Dragonflies like flying hawks, couch-length centipedes, and drainpipe-thick millipedes weren’t monsters… they were normal.

We’ll follow the mystery step by step:

🔬 The oxygen jackpot – How an atmosphere with ~35% oxygen supercharged insect bodies
🌍 A planet running hot – Why greenhouse heat and endless forests created the perfect insect playground
🕊️ A sky with no predators – What happens when bugs own the skies and nothing hunts them from above
⚔️ The rise of hunters – How early reptiles, giant amphibians, birds, and bats turned size into a deadly disadvantage
💨 The oxygen crash – The atmospheric plunge that literally shrunk the maximum bug size
🦴 The exoskeleton problem – Why external armor and gravity team up to put a hard cap on how big insects can get
🌲 The fall of the forests – How collapsing swamp ecosystems took the flying giants down with them
📏 The physics wall – Why even if we boosted oxygen today, modern insects still couldn’t scale back up

By the end, you’ll see why giant prehistoric bugs weren’t a random glitch in evolution—they were the result of a perfect, one-time combo of atmosphere, climate, predators, and physics that our modern world just doesn’t have anymore.

🎥 What you’ll learn in this video:

Why Carboniferous Earth made supersized insects possible

How oxygen levels, temperature, and forest ecology changed insect biology

Why predators like birds and bats literally forced insects to shrink

The physics of wings, exoskeletons, and breathing tubes—and why they set an upper limit on bug size

Whether cranking up oxygen today could bring giant bugs back (spoiler: nope)

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💬 Tell me in the comments:
Would you rather live with modern bugs… or share the skies with hawk-sized dragonflies?