Audubon Insectarium Meganeuropsis detail
Geologic period: Permian
Pictured:
Meganeuropsis
About this image:
With a wing span of more than 2 feet, Meganeuropsis may well be the largest insect ever. Similar in appearance to a modern dragonfly, Meganeuropsis had wings up to 29 inches from tip to tip. Meganeuropsis disappeared, along with up to 90 percent of a species of life on Earth, at the end of the Permian.
Image and client information:
Audubon Insectarium Meganeuropsis detail.
For Audubon Institute Insectarium.
© by Karen Carr
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In addition to the time she spends painting, Karen finds time now and again to serve as a guest speaker, lecturer and instructor to museum groups, professional organizations, schools and universities. She has also presented master classes in art and digital painting at universities in the U.S.
Karen has delivered recent presentations for these institutions and groups:
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Southern Methodist University
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators at the College of William & Mary and at Montana State University
- New Mexico Highlands University
- University of Texas at Arlington
- University of North Texas
- Dallas Paleontological Society
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