The Age of Giant Insects
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Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, they were not only abundant: they were enormous.
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Australian insects: We are big!
Prehistoric insects: hold my oxygen
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they stayed big and safe because you on a island lol.
Dinos:hold my feathers!
Edmind Sundaram since when were dinos insects 😂🤨
"take a deep breath"
My athsma: "hello"
Its me.
You're looking for
@@nikitao8153 rip grumpy the cat
Same :/
Nikita O I can see it in your eyes
Insects got nerfed in update 1.811
🤣😂
Yes
teir zoo fans? your far from home jk
Anyone else notice how hard the nerfed spinous in the Moroccan update they went from terrifying Lizards to fish catching duck faced over sized crocodile they used to be such a cool feature now they suck frik this game
@@suntzu7520 lol
I grew up in Darwin, in Australia's remote tropical north. There was a Dragonfly about 6 inches long, and yes it was green, so it looked like a military helicopter. There was also a Stick Insect about a foot long, it could fly and had crimson wings.
Me: reaches for sawed-off shotgun
Lmao get stick bugged lol
As beautiful as the country is, as nice the people come across... I could never wrap my head around why people want to go to Australia
Grew up in Cairns can confirm iv got a photo with a stick insect biger bout that size on my face with its wings out most people dont know they hav them
Only in Australia 💀
Imagine a forrest fire with that much oxygen in the atmosphere! Wow
ka boom
@@WoozyCool Intristing idear!
Forest fires were probably the only things that prevented tree trunks from piling up taller than the trees themselves during that period lol
@@J75PootleMost of them rotted in peat and became coal.
@@WokeandProud Trees didn't rot for most of that period, that's the point. There were no bacteria or insects that had evolved to eat/break down wood by that point, so the trees just sat there and either got burned by wildfire or got buried and eventually became coal - in fact most coal in this planet comes from the carboniferous because the wood wasn't being broken down
Someday a squid descendant may be lecturing about how the Age of the Hominids ended with an explosion of carbon dioxide levels that led in just a few million years to the Rise of the Octopods
The dolphins already hated us for filling the ocean with boat noise. I wonder what they make of the jellyfish?
Squidward?
Splatoon?
No. A sudden explosion of radioactive material. That still a mystery to where it came from according to Octopod scientist.
I'd be ok with that.
“You know those cute little millipedes...?”
Me: “No. I have never known a cute millipede.”
Because you're wrong.
Infidel!
Yeah i was like “wtf you mean cute 😂”
But the small ones are so cute
@@NafeeDoesStuff HERETIC!
"I don't think a can of Raid is going to do it."
Some milipedes produce cyanide gas...
They probably look at modern mammals the same way :P
A can't* of raid
That's just insect pepper spray
Hey! Get your damn pesticide away from from my carbiniferus survival strategy.
Step 1: Large cauldron full of water
Step 2: Hot fire
Step 3: Butter.
Step 4: After eating the giant arthropods, die of poison because you sprayed them.
Not even Mortein can do the trick.
The thing that really hits me is the fact that there is a roughly 6 million year period between the extinction of arthropleura and meganeura. That's just absolutely wild to me. That means meganeura was flying around for millions of years longer than humans have even existed purely during the DECLINE of the age of insects. And the species itself was around for a whole lot longer than that. The sheer scale of time is really scary sometimes.
Yep it's easy to see why some people refuse to believe the ridiculously old age of the earth four and a half billion years is almost impossible to get your mind around it's a soul crushing amount of time it might as well be eternity from our perspective.
The comprehension of time and space is what’s scary , now you realize why infinit is scary and end of space is scary. Time is the construct it’s not scary. You understanding 100 million years and paining a picture is scary.
"Now imagine a giant centepede"
Other people: NOPE
Me: *I wanna ride on it's back*
Skatepede its just a centipide you can ride haha yeaaa...
Can you IMAGINE, an army who rides into battle on _those_ things instead of horses?
NO-ONE WOULD MESS WITH THEM. XD
Probably the safest spot to come in contact with.
@Jerry Gonzales Training
YO THAT'S A MOOD
The scientist at Arizona State NEED TO BE STOPPED. I refuse to live in a 50's monster movie just because they got carried away with oxygen tanks!
B-but *SCIENCE*
The mega bugs these scientists produced in the lab probably wouldn’t survive outside their oxygen rich enclosure.
@@davidrosner6267 if there are mad scientists somewhere producing an army of giant bugs, they would know to attach the oxygen tanks to the giant bugs.
And then you notice her wedding ring and all your Hopes and dreams set suffocated like the bugs on this video.... :(
@@zeburancher9480, they'd need to attack them to all the insects' breathing pores.
"Cute little millipedes" try terrifying.
One of my most hated creatures on this planet.
Whoever calls millepedes cute has never been to Australia during millepede season.
Joseph Burchanowski
What did you say in japanese?
Millipedes are never cute but they're also not terrifying though centipedes... Not even "terrifying" could describe them
Nah mate, have you ever seen one up close? They have cute big round eyes in a cute round face and they don't do nothing to anyone or anything.
you mean The Age of Nope.
I literally said nope as soon as she said that bug was as big as a pigeon.
Lmaoooo
lol
This comment caught me off guard I lol
The Holocene is the Age of Nope.
Captain, we're going to need a bigger shoe.
Time to bust out the big boi boots.
This is why flame throwers exist
DNTME hire a sauropod
"A living carpet" thats a terrifying image for something with million legs 🦵
"Take a deep breath"
*does as instructed and ends up sneezing uncontrollably*
Grows 10 feet
Can I breathe out yet? Only, she hasn't told me I can and I'm struggling a bit now...
@@stephenphillip5656 are you still alive
Reminds me of life in Australia 🕷
BrainCraft Nothing in venomous in Australia can compare in size to these creatures.
Oh sweetie , as a Melbournian, the insects that you usually come across are only the size of your thumbnail or nail from your pinky. Only in the outback do you find huge insects , where less that ~2% of our population exists. Except you'll often come across possums , small spiders, insects and parakeets. Except the occasional kangaroo that goes jumping in front of you house.
that offends me so much because im australian
Meanwhile, in Arizona... we use blowtorches to kill rat-sized scorpions.
Australia has 35% atmospheric oxygen? Must be nice.
You had us at Griffinflies. And spiracles. Great video!
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I knew the oxygen levels were much higher once, allowing for big insects. However, I did NOT know about decomposers and funghi! Thank you for teaching me new things!
Fun guy 😂
Learns of giant dinosaurs “OMG that is awesome”
Learns of giant insects “Ahh Heck No!!!”
Weird, huh?
im not fat, i just have too much oxygen.
lolll
I mean I’d much rather die at the hands of a giant dinosaur than a giant insect … dinosaurs were scary… but are insects are CREEPY
As the late Steven J. Gould wrote, if you count by either number of organisms, or by total biomass, it is neither the age of mammals, nor the age of insects: it is now and always has been the age of bacteria.
counting by number of individuals, this is the age of viruses, if you count them as living
www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2644
And you are why humans are in trouble.
We are merely incubators and motility systems for bacteria.
Bah. Gould was a chump. It was and always will be the age of rock. There is more rock than anything else on the planet, by any measure. Therefore rock wins.
See how stupid that one of reasoning is?
But rocks arent living beings, bacteriae are.
I welcome our ant overloards with this giant bottle of spilled Coke
Reptar you overlord is a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes get your story straight.
@@salometipsandtricks2786 you know nothing let's be real
Rice n Beans ah yes hail the ant AAAAAAYYYYYYAAAAAAAA AAAAYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAA HAIL THE ANTS
Rice n Beans I love ants
Did these giant insects eat any animals?
You know how we have lots of museums with animatronic/robotic dinosaurs? Where's the museum of moving giant insects? I need this in my life!
Also called the nope museum.
It could double as a haunted house around halloween.
Go to the Field Museum in Chicago. They have an insect section where you're "shrunk" and the insects are huge. Some are even animatronic.
@@zarwrites That sounds so cool. Unfortunately I won't ever get to go there as I don't live in America.
@@Thumbsupurbum It's a haunted house all year round bro.
I notice that you didn't mention that fungi, at this time, weren't able to break down lignin or cellulose, as trees with these chemical components had evolved relatively recently. This is another major reason why trees didn't decompose, and instead formed coal. That's why virtually all coal was formed around this time (the only exceptions being under very rare circumstances otherwise) and peat is the only analogous material formed since.
That's a theory of right now
With how incomplete the fossil record is, it makes you wonder what other weird, giant insectoid creatures existed at that time that we have no idea about.
It takes a lot of perfectly timed things to all happen in order to form a fossil. Your right there is so so much we haven’t a clue about. Exoskeletons are very rare fossils and not many exist at all considering we are talking millions of years. Idk the ratio but seems like it would be like .0001 fossils annually or something crazy
This is why i think there's still a giant spider from Carboniferous. Megarachne is just a very very bad coincidence
@@danielcorpuz1873 mega what?
@@m13848 megadeeznuts
@@danielcorpuz1873Spider's can't handle getting big thier anatomy would make it too difficult to breath.
Ah yes, the Great Arthropod War of 299M, it was a brutal war but many exoskeletons were crunched that day.
👏👏
@Jagred PeaceMocker your actually right, if we put a family of humans in a chamber full of 100% oxygen and let them live on and reproduce id assume after a few generations they would be taller than the original parents
@@BADVlBES they would anyway because the women would choose the tallest men.
@Jagred PeaceMocker exoskeleton would be too heavy.
Yes my ancestors hid in a hole. Cowards.
I really like the hosts on this channel! They seem very friendly and passionate about the subjects. Keep it up Eons!
im not fat, i just have too much oxygen.
lolll
@33kaus holokaust what is your problem?
Lmfao
Weird flex but ok
@33kaus holokaust that was random
Lol
".......ok google: how do i build a flamethrower"
I said this out loud by accident and my phone actually looked it up.... Lmao
Hans
Get the Flamethrower
:/
With a spark and oxygen overload you can burn a whole Carboniferous rainforest in a day
@@NUSORCA probably a whole continent within a week at fastest.
"goodbye ocean....
Aaaaaannnnnnd everything is huge, including bugs"
-bill wurtz
Lmfao
@@sanstheskelespook100yearsa9 bill wurtz is best
Legendary
I'm pretty sure the age of the giant bugs was the 1950's. That's what late night movies tell us.
Wandering Wade Beginning of the end
The Deadly Mantis!
(reads replies)
(gets a sudden urge to bust out some oldschool MST3K)
Seriously, I kind of love the cheesy '50s monster movies. They're just silly fun. :)
MANT....!!
I always love watching Eons, and the other PBS science productions. They do a wonderful job. That being said... a pigeon is larger than a robin in every respect.
PBS American commies - you wouldn't like it all the time.
Advising you on ALL things. 1984 Brave New World
She says that meganeura had a wingspan of 70 cm, about the size of a pigeon and stephanotypus had a wingspan of 40 cm, about the size of a robin.
0:14 "there are way more of them than there are of us"
We're working on it
Losing battle
Time travel tip
Always bring a huge newspaper
The animals that lived before the dinosaurs are so underrated.
Fun fact: all that carbon that Carboniferous forests were sucking in that never got released by decomposition? That's where our coal comes from, and it's finally all getting released back into the atmosphere now.
EXACTLY.. And it will return the Earth to a similar climate as the one described here.
Purpose of life?
Humans were designed to release the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere and plastic.
Humans exist because they create more entropy than any other form of life or matter.
@@atwaterpub The reason those conditions existed in the first place was because the CO2 was trapped in the non-decomposed wood. If anything, burning coal takes us further away from those conditions.
@@chriswillb HAHA That is ridiculous. I am not talking about the super-oxygenated Earth atmosphere in the "Age of Insects" (Proterozoic Era...BEFORE the Age of Dinosaurs). I am talking about the early "Age of Dinosaurs (The Paleozoic Era .. when trees and coniferous trees started growing). The CO2 content in the atmosphere at that time was 15 times present day.
It just creeps me out knowing that scintests are trying to make bigger bugs ! Who is funding this evil plan ? 😒
Ngl I think bigger bugs would be pretty cool but scary at the same time
Why evil?
It’s not to make bugs bigger regularly it’s just an experiment
I would
Its actually better! They made the world a better place to live! Well you guys wont feel it cuz only dino fans and paleontologists love this idea. I wish there were dinosaurs in 2021 and i want big ol' artheopods too.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare the number of insects to the number of mammals, rather than just humans?
There are 7.2 billion humans on the planet today - if we take everyone over the age of 15, they weigh a combined total of about 332bn kg. If we imagine there are 10,000 trillion ants in the world, weighing an average of 4mg, their total weight comes to just 40bn kg. Feel better?
Logic rules! (This shouldn't have been able to slip past the writers' notice - appreciate you pointing it out!).
I think 'humans' was used as a point of comparison since humans are considered to be the dominant species. The message was, "Hey! Think YOU"RE the 'big dog'?! Well... get a load of THIS!"
@Jerry Gonzales But in what arena? On land, they die. In water, we die. Not much of a battle to even be fought, in either scenario.
The insects would still be more numerous though.
An interesting point to note is that if all mammals disappeared from the Earth then the ecosystem would still go on. If all the insects (or more accurately, arthropods) disappeared then the ecosystem would collapse!
i’ve never been so glad for a creature’s extinction in my life
Hehe
Cool what's your insta
@@philipgali6205 ah hell no
If things would have gone differently maybe humans wouldn't exist and animals would be so glad.
I'm actually really sad.. I'd love to see cute big bugs!
{big bugs}
Me: *M O V I N G T O M A R S*
watch the anime Terraformars. and you will rethink your decision.
Marvin is looking forward to his new human slave's arrival.
@@teemusid ,,, Sooo, that's, "whats up doc" ???
Remember 99 Million Years ago? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
"99 Million Years Ago" You literally Gets 99 likes
Nevermind i've just liked
Yes I was trying to make a wheel out of stone
@@arisebeats1851 i turned a rock into a smaller rock and said to my self
"this rock, had a child"
0:23
Humans are one species whereas insects are an entire class of animals.
It would be more appropriate to compare the population of humans to, say, a particular species of ant.
Or, alternatively, compare the population of all mammals to all insects.
Alot of people dont really think that humans are mammals and i hate it
@@LeBaldJames23- but we scientifically are mammals how can they be like "wE aReN't MaMmAlS". Of course we are.
Well there are atleast 10000 trillion ants so they are more than humans .
It is difficult to compare between total number of insect species to o mammals as we are still finding new species of insects so quite a difficult one.
@@sandroskronias same people that think bugs aren't animals
@@smoky3302 because ants are tiny
"cute" and "millipedes" can't be used in the same coherent phrase.
you must be confused - Millipedes are cute as well mas amazing. Centipedes, the nasty vicious creepy, some poisonous - ugh! Now these are anti-cute.
Milipides are pretty cute, centipedes are tiny demons
Millipedes are herbivores and Centipedes are........ devils
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What?!
But they’re so adorable!Look at how they creep on the garden floor and curl up when you touch them: balls of anxiety,just like me lmao
Meganeura anatomy and physiology was almost as the same as today's dragonfly so dragonflies have one of the oldest anatomy. Thanks for your awesome video
Im learning about this in my college biology class. When my professor talked about there being a lot of oxygen in the air millions of years ago i knew where it was heading and I was like “HES GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE INSECTS FKJSNANSM” in my mind.
I love how much longer and thorough this channel's videos are than other science channels
Are you telling me I can grow giant insect today?
Playing with the oxygen level may be redundant. Just allow the big ones to reproduce. Make sex forbidden for the medium and small ones.
+Dan Nguyen +laser325 look at the comment of Fruchtpudding (6 hours ago). He disagrees with the video's claim that high oxygen is growing bigger insects, and he gives sources.
«The study you mentioned that found dragonflies getting larger in high oxygen atmospheres also tested other insects, and 10 out 12 grew smaller in an hyperoxic environment. Concluding from this that higher oxygen = bigger insects seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Why did you leave this out? It was the main point of that paper.»
Evi1M4chine edgy
*Evi1M4chine*
I'd have given your post some thought, except for the fact you were so sloppy and incoherent.
Don't 😐
There are people like me who have a genuine terror and phobia when it comes to insects and spiders, let alone giant versions of them.
Knowing this, I expect you are more determined now.
I like big bugs and I can not lie!
You other buggers can't deny
YESSS
Couldn't resist, either.
Orange Boy +
Orange Boy well played sir.
With a 35% Oxygen level in the atmosphere, spontaneous combustion and fire would have been a problem.
That's what l was thinking. A forest fire would pretty quickly have become a firestorm?
What would humans look like today if oxygen was 35%?
You remember those cute little millipedes? *NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOOOOOOOOOPE*
I hate bugs, I get anxiety when I see cockroaches running towards me
Millipedes are herbivores and are incapable of hurting anything. When I was in elementary school my friends and I would always go looking for them in the woods and we thought they were adorable. CENTIPEDES, however, are the real nope I think you're thinking about
I wanna have an insect room where I can adjust the oxegen levels.
you crazy? this is how horror movies start!
dementiasorrow I want bigger spiders! Hell a spider the size of a dog is my dream!
@@bugloverspiderlover8490 Psychopath...
You would have to do it over several hundred generations. You would also have to adjust the flora
Ha! I’d turn that nob to zero!
This is such an amazing channel. I love it and I thank you for making such great vids! Interesting info, perfect visuals, and talented hosts, love it all!
Earth: Gets More oxygen
Insects: haha body go big
I, for one, welcome our insect overlords
Now we need an episode on giant arachnids. Pulmonoscorpion!
binky2819 An athropod enemy
Weeb
Kotonoha Katsura IM A PROUD WEEB
Stop the anime avatars WEEB LIVES MATTER
Synovia Oh dear, I've been in your phase and I can tell you'll want to forget this period in your lyf
we don't "make the rules" - we only think we do! nature is far bigger and more powerful than we'll ever be
Universal nature.
Like todays,the men wants to be woman,and viceversa,they can go against Nature.
Juan jose Canales your right that is going against nature
Yes you right bro ...
We ARE nature
PBS: Age of insects
Me: AGE OF NOPE
A history of oxygen gas on earth and its cycle changes over eons would be very interesting. If current plants are being decomposed and O2 is being captured again, is O2 level decreasing millennia by millennia since carboniferous?
I don't know why I get emotional while watching your videos and the mass extinctions.... 💙
Loving this channel more and more.
Amazing content, excellent hosts, interesting topics and timely videos. Keep it up guys.
"You know those cute little millipedes?"
Yeah, adorable.
I'd love a video saying where plants came from. I mean, the first plant was like "Hello, I just popped out of nowhere! I'm gonna give you some oxygen because I love your other gases. :3"
And then there were more plants, and more, and more, and more, and more, and... Wow!
Nate Dagreat Who said anything about atheist btw dipshit you have no life commenting on a 2 year old comment 😂😂😂
Captain here. Plants originated from cyanobacteria which basically invented photosynthesis. Later they would fuse together with larger protozoa or other bacteria and became chloroplasts which is very similar to how mitochondria and such originated. Then came algae and it took them a few million years before starting to grow on the oceans floor or move to the land and discover growing upwards is a good idea
Plants were probably the first original lifeforms. All life started with single cell organisms.
Plants are renowned for feeding on sunlight and some gases.
Then the first plant eating organisms appeared. [correction] Animal life started as multiple cell organisms evolved.
Most started feeding on plants.
Then the first predators appeared.
Insects: This is OUR age human!
Man: Hold my DDT.
If mrbeast keeps planting trees insects are going to be big again
You mean your ccl4 ?
I am literally hooked to this channel. Just love the content and their video titles they are so creative. Just love your content ❤️
I'd love to see a vid on the diversity of Crocodylomorphs, they had some crazy shapes back in the day.
Interesting video. I've always found these giant bugs to be quite interesting. I do have one question. As most people know, there's evidence that forests made up of large treelike plants spanned almost the entire globe during this time. All forests seem to require soil as a foundation. Now, in tropical rain forests, the soil is generally thin and poor quality, but it's there and is important. Decomposers, in part, are needed to produce soil. Without decomposers, you have no soil. No soil likely means no forest. So, my question is thus: if there were no decomposers in existence during the Carboniferous, how does one explain the existence of such vast tracts of forest?
Late response but, bacteria are the most common decomposers in the world. There wasn’t terrestrial life, but there were certainly microbes living on land that filled that role. Hope this helps!
Fungi also paved the way of soil, using their acid to melt away rocks, breaking them down to soil as well as exposing rich minerals.
Great video as usual.
Not only was there somewhere between 50% -100% more oxygen in the Carboniferous atmosphere .
That ancient atmosphere appears to have been twice as dence as today. So you had vastly more oxygen available. Another factor was that there were no other flying animals apart from insects and relatively few land animals apart from the arthropods.
Just discovered this channel, very educational, I like it
Their were probably giant roach how horrifying
Actually, there was normal roaches
Steven Anchundia. 11 to 13" huge..imagine.that on your coffee maker.
Fred Thompson I found one inside my coffee maker. Guess roaches like coffee
Roaches. The one insect that I cannot stand!
I heard there was a giant spider as big as a human head
Well that's terrifying
You're telling me there's not only PBS spacetime but also another just as amazing show :3
Oh my!
I love this stuff. Eons etc. I suggest drachfinel if you love military ships. Dry humor and great stories.
Love the Super Mario-inspired growth-animation and soundeffects😍😍😍😍😍👌👌👌👌👌
This was also the Age of Giant Cans Of RAID.
You kinda needed them.
Andrew Grimm I bet the troodon’s where spraying raid on their nests
@@tylerjones7592 I bet the damselflies got COMPTIA certified & started building RAID 5 arrays everywhere.
My guide advised me to never use RAID or anything similar on them because it only makes them mad.
I hate insects, but this was super interesting. I love this host too
I hate them too...
Ah yes, the carboniferous period, the era when I was born.
Very interesting and educative video by the way.
stfu moth you aren't a Arthropod
1:20 that moment when you’re in a cave in Ark and an Arthropleura comes by and you already know that you’ll come out naked
Or when you see a terror bird in the redwoods and hope it doesn’t see you but then the next thing you see is it running after you
Her voice is so soothing and her enunciation is very clear. Subscribed!
I feel that you missed a great opportunity to introduce *Mazothairos enormis* and its kin to the public here.
Also, there was one group of large insects that lived well after the Carboniferous: the *Titanopterans,* perhaps you can feature them sometime?
I keep thinking the brown cube eons sticker is a post it note stack and THAT WOULD BE SO COOL I'D BUY IT SO FAST
Please, do a video on the evolution of sound. When and how did hearing evolve and when and how did making noise happen? Thank you!
Sun Devils or Spartans? Who ya gonna believe?
That "Babies shooting out their mouth parts to catch a meal" caught me as I had a mouth full of food 🤢😂
Freaking love bugs! Fascinating video guys! Can't wait for summer when they all wake up and i can go exploring again! 💚✌🐜🕷
great video as always!
a question to people who know about fossils and stuff: if a 100 meters long artropod existed, would we be able to find what's left now?
I love this video! I’ve rewatched it a few times over the years. Would love if y’all did another video on the big insects of this period! (:
I love dragon flies. Would love to have seen a dragonfly that big.
If you look at it, every types of animal had its domination of Earth at some point.
The Precambrian was the Age of Bacteria
The Devonian was the Age of Fish
The Carboniferous was the Age of Insects
The Mesozoic was the Age of Reptiles
The Permian was the Age of Amphibians
Age of Birds was Tertiary (kind of Cretaceous)
Age of Mammals was Tertiary and Quaternary.
So... Whats the Next?
@@Gyomax9744 my bet is on silicone based lifeforms
all I can think is : "Shoot them with guns!!" D:
Wait, this is not Klendathu?!
Your gun could explode due to the higher oxygen levels.
Carboniferous: full of swamps
Shrek: Far far away!
Imagine a praying mantis running towards you with those 2m forelegs.
“You know those cute little millipedes”
Me: uhh no
A topic for Eons: how (and when?) living cells became able to perceive light?
Australia must of been a war zone
Probably all of Gondwana..
Here's another fun fact: Oxygen is highly flammable, so what do you suppose happens when a forest fire starts in an oxygen-rich environment? Fires in the Carboniferous must have looked apocalyptic in size.
Oxygen's not flammable, but is supportive of a flammable environment. "Oxygen does not burn, but it is an oxidizer, which means it supports the process of combustion."
I don't even want to imagine a roach a size of a slipper. Let alone it flying around.
Reptile : Thats a big bug! Insect : your a small bugger reptile : NOPE