{"id":895776,"date":"2026-03-31T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/gigantic-prehistoric-dragonfly-like-insects-may-not-owe-their-size-to-oxygen-study\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:18:44","slug":"gigantic-prehistoric-dragonfly-like-insects-may-not-owe-their-size-to-oxygen-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/gigantic-prehistoric-dragonfly-like-insects-may-not-owe-their-size-to-oxygen-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Long thought to be fueled by increased atmospheric oxygen concentration, enormous griffinflies from the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, may have grown large for other reasons.<br \/>\nThe post Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/gigantic-griffinflies-14656.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Randy Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Long thought to be fueled by increased atmospheric oxygen concentration, enormous griffinflies from the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, may have grown large for other reasons. The post Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreRandy Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24805,33525,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-895776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gigantic","8":"category-prehistoric","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}