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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

The latest findings suggest that amniotes also existed in the early Carboniferous period, around 355 million years ago.

Fossil records of crown-group amniotes -- the group that includes mammals, birds and reptiles -- begin in the Late Carboniferous period (about 318 million years old), while previously the earliest ...

During the Pennsylvanian Period, mineral-rich waters flowed through lush peat swamps, preserving pockets of vegetation as fossils.

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The ancient fish lived about 305 million years ago during the Late Pennsylvanian period of the Paleozoic Era, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs said in a Jan. 10 news release.

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 Pennsylvanian might make up a hefty chunk of one of Earth’s most important periods, the Carboniferous, but we know relatively little about the land ecosystems that existed in its earliest days.

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

Now, an international team has discovered an entire ecosystem preserved in sedimentary stone from the Early Pennsylvanian (a period from around 320 to 318 million years ago), containing more than a ...

The fossil site, called Lantern North, dates to approximately 320-318 million years ago during the early Pennsylvanian period and is located in the Wamsutta Formation of eastern North America.