An ancient species has had experts scratching their heads about its unusual jaw shape. The salamander-like creature had a ...

Copepod crustaceans are extremely abundant but, because of their small size and fragility, they fossilize poorly. Their fossil record consists of one Cretaceous (c. 115 Ma) parasite and a few Miocene ...

The Qaidam basin is one of three main oil and gas basins in Northwestern China, but its Carboniferous, formerly thought as a part of the metamorphic base of the basin, is a frontier formation without ...

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost in atmospheric oxygen and vast quantities of carbon dioxide trapped in what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a plant-eating creature that lived 315 million years ago during the ...

Coal. It powered the industrial revolution and fueled the early development of the science of geology. When the geologic time periods were being named, mainly in Great Britain, the time during which ...

Is the process that is at the origin of coal still existent, why or why not, and where does proof of it exist? Is it correct that today's fungi that attack the wood substance lignin did not exist in ...

It made for a neat story: Question: Why did so much of the world’s coal form during the geologic period we now call the Carboniferous? Answer: Large tree-like plants evolved before fungi evolved the ...