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

located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said. The fossil ...

In the oxygen-rich air of the Carboniferous period ... the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura ...

What makes this discovery even more significant is the fossil’s age. It dates back to the Carboniferous Period, which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...