At least they are large enough to be a target for an AR-15
Track_Shovel 9 points 6 days ago
Need one to defend yourself from 30-50 Carboniferous mosquitoes
TheTechnician27 6 points 6 days ago
(There are no mosquitoes known from the Carboniferous or anywhere even close. Even the disputed dates fall 175 million years after the end of the Carboniferous.)
grue 4 points 5 days ago
Makes sense; there wouldn't have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.
Edit: @KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works deleted his comment, but he was at least half-right. Amphibians (tetrapods) had indeed started to show up in the Carboniferous. That said, the Wiki page I read before commenting said that mosquitos feed from mammals and reptiles but didn't mention amphibians. I think it's not that I was wrong about them having nothing to eat, but that I was wrong about overgeneralizing to say "tetrapods."
Also, the ancestors of flowering plants did indeed diverge from their common ancestor with gymnosperms during the Carboniferous, although flowering plants didn't become dominant until the Cretaceous.
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KingGimpicus 1 point 2 days ago
I had originally misread the other comment as saying there were no tetrapods 175mya, not during the carboniferous. That is technically correct for the beginning of the era in question, though tetrapods and flowers did evolve not long after.
Skullgrid 2 points 6 days ago
Mandatory "Carboniferous mentioned" link to Zu's Carboniferous
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