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Bugs from long ago

Bugs were on Earth long before the dinosaurs. These are the oldest ones on Bug Wiki, the oldest first.

  1. 1AnomalocarisPrehistoric giants not an insect520 million years ago
  2. 2HallucigeniaPrehistoric giants not an insect518 million years ago
  3. 3ElrathiaPrehistoric giants not an insect509 million years ago
  4. 4ParadoxidesPrehistoric giants not an insect509 million years ago
  5. 5OpabiniaPrehistoric giants not an insect505 million years ago
  6. 6IsotelusPrehistoric giants not an insect470 million years ago
  7. 7PhacopsPrehistoric giants not an insect458 million years ago
  8. 8JaekelopterusPrehistoric giants not an insect433 million years ago
  9. 9EurypterusPrehistoric giants not an insect432 million years ago
  10. 10PterygotusPrehistoric giants not an insect430 million years ago
  11. 11BrontoscorpioPrehistoric giants not an insect419 million years ago
  12. 12WalliseropsPrehistoric giants not an insect419 million years ago
  13. 13ArthropleuraPrehistoric giants not an insect344 million years ago
  14. 14PulmonoscorpiusPrehistoric giants not an insect341 million years ago
  15. 15MazothairosPrehistoric giants not an insect309 million years ago
  16. 16MeganeuraPrehistoric giants not an insect305 million years ago
  17. 17MegarachnePrehistoric giants not an insect304 million years ago
  18. 18MeganeuropsisPrehistoric giants not an insect290 million years ago
  19. 19MongolarachnePrehistoric giants not an insect165 million years ago
  20. 20TitanomyrmaPrehistoric giants not an insect56 million years ago

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