Why Are There No Gigantic Insects Alive Today

question 56

Multiple Choice

Why are there no gigantic insects alive today?

• A) There is no niche for gigantic insects.
• B) There are gigantic insects in remote regions of the tropics; we just have not discovered them.
• C) The concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is too low to make gigantic body size in insects efficient.
• D) There is no evidence of gigantic insects in the past, so there can not be any alive today due to constraining evolution.

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