The Carboniferous Period, dating back some 359 to 299 million ... These conditions created an atmosphere that allowed ...

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 ...

Oldest footprints of first ‘reptile’ found by fossil hunters A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to evidence discovered at an Australian fossil site that represents a critical ...

The origin of four-limbed animals known as tetrapods was thought to be fairly straightforward: Fish flopped onto land in the Devonian, evolved, and eventually diversified into the reptiles, birds ...

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals evolved to live on land.

Early Carboniferous sauropsid tracks mean that tetrapods must have been branching out from their common ancestor sometime during the Devonian, meaning that the mass extinction had little effect on ...

Amniotoes and the earliest members of the modern groups of animals we see today followed fishapods during the Carboniferous period.

When we talk about prehistoric life, dinosaurs usually get all the attention. But the truth is, long before they came along, Earth was already home to some truly fascinating creatures. These early ...