Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period ... a hundred different organisms. The fossil site, dubbed Lantern North, was ...

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 ...

3 min read The Carboniferous period ... One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly that died 320 million years ago shows it had a wingspan of 2.5 feet (0.75 meters). How insects first became ...

These diminutive predators thrived during the Carboniferous period ... Researchers have been meticulously documenting ...

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 ...