Its discovery shed light on the incredible diversity of Carboniferous life and provided new clues about the evolution of arachnids.

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost ...

Learn about Earth's Carboniferous period and prehistoric life.

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing ...

Could you make it in the swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period? The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all ...

The specimens of this bizarre mollusk-like creature were found in the Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone deposit in Montana and were unusually well-preserved, according to a paper published in the ...

Moreover, the sizes of the largest arthropods, mollusks, and chordates all decline from the Carboniferous to the lower oxygen Permian. In 2009, my friend and colleague Jon Payne at Stanford university ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fossil footprints are lovely vestiges of prehistoric life. Even though skeletons are wonderful things, and immense mounts of defleshed dinosaurs were what inspired my love of paleontology in the ...

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 ...