Identified from remains found inside fossilized Carboniferous tree stumps, they were small, agile, lizard-like animals. Africa collided with eastern North America in the late Pennsylvanian ...

But what lived before the dinosaurs? Surprisingly, Earth’s creatures were highly diverse during the Carboniferous and Permian Eras (the time before dinosaurs) and also enormous. Unearth the nine ...

The find contradicts previous theories on the gigantic size of these creatures. While high atmospheric oxygen levels during ...

A captivating new species of arachnid from the late Carboniferous period is introduced ... the false belief that most of the world’s animals have already been discovered. But that’s not ...