Imagine a world where dragonflies hunted from the skies like predatory hawks. To see it, we must journey back three hundred million years, to an age before the dinosaurs, before the first flower ever bloomed. This was the Carboniferous period. A time of vast, swampy forests where the air was thick, hot, and heavy with the smell of damp earth. Here, a shadow darts overhead—not a bird, but the gr...
