« BackWhy insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old ideanature.comSubmitted by marojejian 17 hours ago
  • jjk166 11 hours ago

    The Thought Emporium did a video detailing a lot of this a few months back, plus some some experiments on how the actual limits to insect size can be bypassed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PjLvlBsWw

    • marojejian 17 hours ago

      This podcast interview really challenged my priors. In general highglight that a lot of the theories I believe might have much less evidence backing them than I thought.

      paper (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10291-3

      summary article: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-massive-insect-body-size-milli...