Imagine a world where giant insects and bizarre creatures ruled the land—a world steamy, lush, and alien, teeming with life ...

3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era ... One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly that died 320 million years ago shows it had a wingspan of 2.5 feet (0. ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

In the oxygen-rich air of the Carboniferous period, between roughly 300 million ... the gigantic crawler eluded ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

a period known as the Carboniferous, have yielded fossils of millipedes, spiders, cockroaches and amphibians. Monster dragonflies with 2.5-foot wingspans ruled the skies. (It would be another 70 ...

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, ...

depicted hunting a crustation in a reef-like crinoidal forest during the Carboniferous period. | Credit: NPS Illustration / Benji Paysnoe Researchers collecting fossils deep inside Kentucky's ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million ... stressor during the Devonian-Carboniferous mass extinction, in contrast to ...