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    wingspan about 65–75 cm (2.13–2.46 ft), M. monyi is one of the largest-known flying insect species. Fossils of Meganeura were first discovered in Late Carboniferous...
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    Meganisoptera (also known as griffinflies) such as the Carboniferous Meganeura monyi and the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana are the largest insect species...
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    GGKEY:0Z7A1R071DD. No Dragonfly at present existing can compare with the immense Meganeura monyi of the Upper Carboniferous, whose expanse of wing was somewhere about...
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    includes the largest known insect species, such as the late Carboniferous Meganeura monyi and the even larger early Permian Meganeuropsis permiana, with wingspans...
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    GGKEY:0Z7A1R071DD. No dragonfly at present existing can compare with the immense Meganeura monyi of the Upper Carboniferous, whose expanse of wing was somewhere about...
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    † Gallotupus Nel, Garrouste & Roques, 2008 † Gilsonia Meunier, 1908 † Meganeura Brongniart, 1885 † Meganeurina Handlirsch, 1919 † Meganeuropsis Carpenter...
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    their toxicity using warning colors. The giant dragonfly-like insect Meganeura monyi grew to wingspans of 75 cm (2 ft 6 in) in the late Carboniferous, around...
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    anomalocaridid Peytoia, a Cambrian invertebrate, probably an apex predator Meganeura monyi, a predatory Carboniferous insect related to dragonflies, could fly...
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    receiving the designation of "Vulnerable". Meganeuropsis permiana and Meganeura monyi, prehistoric griffinflies Megaloprepus caerulatus, the largest Odonate...
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  • largest known insects, such as griffinflies like the late Carboniferous Meganeura monyi, and the even larger later Permian Meganeuropsis permiana, with wingspans...
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