The biggest insect ever was a "dragonfly"

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0-_-0•12 minutes ago

There was a recent HN post where they checked the oxygen hypothesis (insects grew this large due to higher atmospheric oxygen levels) and it didn't hold up

anenefan•2 days ago

https://eartharchives.org/articles/the-biggest-insect-ever-w...

gus_massa•about 13 hours ago

I agree.

The problem is that the webpage says:

Line 11:

  <link href="index.html" rel="canonical" />

Line 44-46:

  <div class='canonical-url'>
  /articles/the-biggest-insect-ever-was-a-huge-dragonfly/
  </div>

I'm not sure what the second link does, but the first definitively confuses the HN server.

@OP: Is this your webpage? Do you know the owners? Can you fix it? If not, send an email to dang/tomhow so they can advice what to do.

befictious•about 1 hour ago

An 18" dragonfly is terrifying

0-_-0•11 minutes ago

I have no idea how much that is so it doesn't terrify me, but a 47 cm dragonfly is terrifying!

fragmede•10 minutes ago

18 inches is 45 cm 72 cm is 28.3 in.

The biggest insect ever was a "dragonfly"

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