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 Carboniferous period is pivotal in the geological record, marked by intricate stratigraphic sequences and diverse microfossil assemblages that reveal past environmental conditions and tectonic ...

The Carboniferous and Permian periods (358 -- 272 million years ago) were critical intervals in the evolution of life on land. During the Carboniferous Period North America and Europe lay in a ...

Learn about the Permian period and how it ended in Earth's largest extinction. 1 of 12 Edaphosaurus A sail-backed edaphosaurus forages amid a Permian landscape in this artist's depiction.

A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new ...

The fragmentation of tropical rainforests 300 million years ago helped pave the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. In the Carboniferous period, North America and Europe lay ...

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic proportions. One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest bug ever ...

Amniotes are thought to have diverged from amphibians at the dawn of the Carboniferous period, about 355 million years ago. Mammals would diverge from reptiles and birds only 30 million years later.

The fragmentation of tropical rainforests 300 million years ago helped pave the way for the rise of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. In the Carboniferous period, North America and Europe lay ...