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

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

In the oxygen-rich air of the Carboniferous period, between roughly 300 million and 360 million years ago, some animals ...

Finding any fossil, let alone fossilized remains that are hundreds of millions of years old, always gives a glimpse into the ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural ...

First, it led to the creation of iconic "coal forests" full of giant insects in the Carboniferous period during the ice age. It also paved the way for the rise of reptiles in the Permian period ...

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, ...

type and figured material of George Jennings Hinde (1879), which represents our oldest conodont collection material from Alan Higgins, published in the 1960s type and figured material from the ...