Let’s review the important things you should know about the Cretaceous period. This post was updated on May 24, 2025 to include the identification of a new Cretaceous period species. Major Events ...

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 ...

When the geologic time periods were being named, mainly in Great Britain, the time during which coal was being deposited was christened the Carboniferous Period.

These prints, dated to about 356 million years ago during the early Carboniferous period, are remarkably detailed and show five distinct toes ending with sharply curved claws.

The extinction event that ended the Devonian period corresponds to a major change in the kinds of fishes populating ancient seas and lakes. Ray-finned fishes, the staple of the aquarium and dinner ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their ...

During the Permo-Carboniferous period, growth and decay of Gondwanan ice sheets caused large fluctuations (∼ 50–150 m) in global sea level, or eustasy 1,2.Such eustatic cycles yielded ...

Carboniferous forest. Mark Ryan. Toward the end of the Carboniferous period, the number of tetrapod species had begun to increase greatly. But then the climate became much drier, causing a mass ...

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 ...