A time traveler's survival guide. The vertical green bars are the only times in Earth's history with enough oxygen to breathe (hypoxia) and low enough to avoid oxygen toxicity (hyperoxia).

j4k3@lemmy.world · edit-2 5 months ago

A time traveler's survival guide. The vertical green bars are the only times in Earth's history with enough oxygen to breathe (hypoxia) and low enough to avoid oxygen toxicity (hyperoxia).

pacmondo@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Oh yeah, there was a whole era where the earth was extra oxygenated so you had XXL insects flying around. They have even done experiments raising modern insects in oxygen rich tanks and they grow (proportionally) quite large!