End of big bug era
Flying predators probably gobbled up the biggest of the large flying insects 150 million years ago
![a photo of a brightly colored dragonfly resting on a twig](https://www.snexplores.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dragonfly2-945x579.jpg)
Modern dragonflies (shown here in close-up) are much, much smaller than the flying insects that roamed the skies 300 million years ago.
André Karwath