suggesting that life in the Early Carboniferous period was more complex than previously believed. Typically, knowledge from this ancient geologic period has come from fossil plants that grew in ...

"It is an exceptional preservation and rarely found in compressions in which the Carboniferous plant fossils of this region are preserved," stated Pedro Correia, a researcher at the Center for ...

3 min read The Carboniferous period ... Over millions of years, the organic deposits of this plant debris formed the world's first extensive coal deposits—coal that humans are still burning ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Fossils more than 200 million years old have helped scientists from University College Cork (UCC) trace how plants coped in the wake of a climate catastrophe. The findings from the international ...

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 ...