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

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

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. ...

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

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

The fossil seems to date back toward the end of the Carboniferous period and into the Permian period, which took place about 300 million years ago, Calder told the news agency. Those time periods ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...