The Annals of History Three Tales Once upon a time, hundreds of millions of years ago in the dawn of the Paleozoic Era, all sorts of elaborately camouflaged insects of every imaginable description hopped, slithered, bounded, leapt, or somehow dragged their multicolored carapaces across the landscape. The reigning species was comprised of large insects fitted with tiny steam engines that powered their legs, making them capable of prodigious leaps up the evolutionary ladder; others, less evolutionarily fortunate in the engineering department, frolicked heedlessly on the still-warm soil of the young Earth. All this happened long before human beings were even a glimmer on the historical horizon, countless eons before what we so casually call civilization reared its ugly head. It was a great time to be alive, if you were a bug.
I remember this piece. Hilarious !