Project Description

(359 – 299 million years ago) — Mascot: Meganeura — The Carboniferous is also known as “The Coal Age.” Land life proliferates and primitive reptiles appear. Giant scale “trees” dominate the lush landscape, and insect life balloons to truly gigantic proportions. Its name meaning “large-nerved” in Greek, due to the system of veins running throughout its wings, the dragonfly Meganeura ruled the skies and became the first life form to take flight. Its wingspan was around three feet (1 m) wide.