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Such a high level makes the terrifyingly large insects of the dinosaur era possible again
by rileyphone 4y ago
Such a high level makes the terrifyingly large insects of the dinosaur era possible again
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoHere's a funny posting by the Terminix (bug spray) folks: https://www.terminix.com/blog/bug-facts/giant-prehistoric-bugs-were-glad-are-extinct/ https://www.terminix.com/blog/bug-facts/giant-prehistoric-bu... It was actually before dinosaurs (Devonian and Cambrian Periods).
- thaumasiotes 4y agoProbably not. Those large insects and other bugs could flourish because they didn't have effective competition. But increasing the oxygen level today isn't going to remove the ecosystem that prevents giant bugs from developing again. Analogously, there's nothing about the atmosphere preventing giant ground sloths from existing, but they nevertheless can't exist because they're not compatible with humans.
- ncmncm 4y agoThey can't exist because they were exterminated in the comet strike of 10,818 BCE. We don't know whether they would have coexisted with us. E.g., hippo population in Columbia is exploding. Megatherium sp. coexisted with hunter-gatherer humans for at least thousands of years. Horses and camels can coexist with humans. They too were obliterated in the Americas by the comet strike. But we anyway know people did hunt all of them, before that.