Higher insects (insects with metamorphosis) were close to modern Hymenoptera and lived on conifers, and they played an essential role in the further evolution of the seed. That event probably was the ...Higher insects (insects with metamorphosis) were close to modern Hymenoptera and lived on conifers, and they played an essential role in the further evolution of the seed. That event probably was the reason for the great extinction of marine life: trilobites did not survive Permian, as well as 40% of cephalopods, 50% echinoderms, 90% brachiopods, and bryozoans, almost all corals and so on.