Imagine a world where dragonflies with wingspans rivaling that of a hawk darted through ancient forests, and millipedes as long as a car slithered across the dense, swampy underbrush. This is not the ...

So Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research decided to see what was happening. To do so, he built a climate model specific for the Carboniferous.

About 350 million years ago, at the boundary of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, the climate changed. There was no one around to record it, but there are records nonetheless in the rocks ...

All the Carboniferous world’s lignin couldn’t have made its way into coal, and lignin isn’t even the only type of organic matter in Carboniferous-age coals. At least some of it must have ...

The climate had been shifting for millions of years, ... The carboniferous rainforest collapse is named after that window of geologic time in which it took place, the Carboniferous Period.

The Carboniferous and Permian periods (358 -- 272 million years ago) were critical intervals in the evolution of life on land. During the Carboniferous Period North America and Europe lay in a ...