By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

Scientists discovered the skull of Tyrannoroter, a 307-million-year-old plant-eating vertebrate, in Nova Scotia. The find alters our understanding of early tetrapods and their dietary evolution, ...

According to the researchers, the fossil represents an early shift in diet that helped shape modern terrestrial ecosystems.

Premise of research. Secondary phloem produced by a bifacial vascular cambium is the distinctive feature of lignophytes, the group that comprises the seed plants and the progymnosperms. Because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.