In New Brunswick, Canada, researchers discovered fossils of a prehistoric tree from the Early Carboniferous period. Evidence of the alien-like tree was first unearthed in a quarry in 2017.

the Carboniferous, but we know relatively little about the land ecosystems that existed in its earliest days. Now, thanks to the discovery of an “exceptionally preserved” fossil site in ...

The fossil seems to date back toward the end of the Carboniferous period and into the Permian period, which took place about 300 million years ago, Calder told the news agency. Those time periods ...

Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing ... One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly that died 320 million years ago shows it had a wingspan of 2.5 feet (0.75 meters).

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their wealth of fossils from the ...

Among these, an uncovering of Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, a tree species from 350 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, is something of a revelation. While no longer alive, their fossils ...

In the Carboniferous Period, 359 to 299 million years ago, plants grew in swampy, green bogs that over time became the coal deposits we use today as fossil fuels. Among the plants that grew back then ...

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing ...

This discovery, published in the Journal of Paleontology, is part of a larger project to catalog fossils from Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Scientists are exploring geological layers dating back to the ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.