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Prehistoric life

Meganeura

Meganeura
Photo: Ghedo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Scientific name
Meganeura
Continent
Europe
Group
Invertebrate
Period
Carboniferous
Diet
Carnivore
Length
Tiny (under 1 m)
Moves
Flies
Feature
Nothing special
Difficulty in WildGuessr
Medium

Did you know?

  • Its wings spanned about 70 centimetres, roughly as wide as a pigeon's.
  • The first fossils were found in 1880 in a coal mine at Commentry, in France.

Could you guess it from clues?

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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q283596 · All prehistoric life · All entries