Dragonflies are among the most ancient of winged insects.
The fossil record shows evidence of ancestors in the carboniferous period –over 300 million years ago! That’s before the dinosaurs came to be.
Carboniferous ancestor of dragonflies, fossil Meganeuridae indet.from Commentry in France, Museum des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels, Belgium. The griffenfly belonged to the genus Meganeura.
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