Carboniferous of Europe ... The winged insect climbing a horsetail (equisetum) is a primitive cockroach Manoblatta sp. Flying insects are the large dragonflies (meganeura). At the top centre ...

But what do we really know about these persistent pests? Here are several points you should note. The cockroach species can be dated to the Carboniferous era, 280 million years ago. They are usually ...

Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing ... in length crawled in the company of mammoth cockroaches and scorpions as much as three feet (one meter) long. Most impressive of all were ...

Cockroaches evolved in the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago — and they may never go away. Not only can they ...