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 ...

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).

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 ...

The fossil tree, Pitys withamii, lived during the Carboniferous Period, which lasted from around 359 to 299 million years ago. Many of the coal beds that Britain came to rely on formed at this time, ...

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen species of ancient shark. Named Clavusodens mcginnisi, or McGinnis’ nail ...

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 ...

Reconstruction of the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived in the Carboniferous period, 326 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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 ...