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Giant prehistoric insects may not have depended on high oxygen levels after all. Scientists now think something else must ...

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Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...