Dinosaurs were giant, toothy reptilian creatures that wandered the Earth for millions of years, constantly searching for food ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

A new model explains some of the events in the 80 million years following the start of the Carboniferous period.

Imagine a world where dragonflies with wingspans rivaling that of a hawk darted through ancient forests, and millipedes as long as a car slithered across the dense, swampy underbrush. This is not the ...

The Earth nearly froze over when today’s coal was first buried The Carboniferous period was notable for its lack of carbon in the atmosphere.

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