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. 1 of 10. Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) ...

Life in the Carboniferous Swamp. In a world filled with outsized creatures, Pulmonoscorpius occupied a unique niche. Its massive pincers and venomous sting made it a formidable predator, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...