Insects vastly outnumber humans, and we often delude ourselves into believing we dominate them simply because of our size. However, insects and other arthropods didn't always remain tiny. Around 315 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, they were not just plentiful; they were also gigantic.
Show
Eons
Episode
S01E12
Air Date
Sep 18, 2017
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
The Trouble With Trilobites
S01E02
When Did the First Flower Bloom?
S01E03
The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
S01E04
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
S01E05
What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
S01E06
The Story of Saberteeth
S01E07
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
S01E08
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
S01E09
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
S01E10
The Extinction That Never Happened
S01E11
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
S01E12
The Age of Giant Insects
S01E13
History's Most Powerful Plants
S01E14
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
S01E15
When The Earth Was Purple
S01E16
'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
S01E17
When Whales Walked
S01E18
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
S01E19
A Brief History of Geologic Time
S01E20
The Search for the Earliest Life
S01E21
The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
S01E22
The Last Time the Globe Warmed
S01E23
What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
S01E24
When Giant Fungi Ruled