More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

Learn about Earth's Carboniferous period and prehistoric life. 1 of 10. Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life: the Late Paleozoic ice age. At its peak, huge ...

The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life.

Tiny, 300 million-year-old fossil tracks in nova Scotia may be the smallest footprints made by a vertebrate yet discovered. The whole trackway, containing about 30 footprints, is just under 2 ...

Enter the massive dragonflies of the genus Meganeura that occurred during the Carboniferous, approximately 300 million years ago. With wingspans of up to 65 centimeters ... During this 3.5 billion ...

During the Carboniferous, as the Earth’s landmasses merged into the supercontinent Pangaea, the collision of tectonic plates forged both mountain ranges and wide basins beside them. Voila — holes to ...

A stock image shows ancient sea life from the Cambrian Period. iStock / Getty Images Plus. Further soft-bodied samples from this era are needed to form a more solid conclusion about Typhloesus ...

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 ...