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.

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 ...

A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new ...

Researchers have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first ...

The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for that time when the ...

Paleozoic geology and climate All this evolution took place against the backdrop of shifting continents and a changing climate.