One big, loud carnivore Closely related to grasshoppers and crickets were the Titanoptera. These insects deserved such an aw-inspiring name. They looked similar to preying mantises, but they were huge. One of the biggest was Gigatitan. Imagine you are in the upper Triassic, in what is now Kyrgyzstan. Around you is a wet forest, fullContinue reading “Paleo Profiles: Gigatitan”