This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

The spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid Douglassarachne acanthopoda was discovered the famous Mazon Creek locality. More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the ...

If you want to get a sense of what life was like during the Carboniferous period some 300 million years ago, visit the Kona Cloud Forest above Kailua. The area abounds with ferns that once were ...

"Given that multiple episodes of rapid coastal drowning events occurred in the U.S. midcontinent during the Carboniferous Period, refinement of information from the Mazon Creek locality will lead to a ...

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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— colonised new areas in the ...

When we think of climate change today, we think of fossil fuels: coal, oil, gas. They are the compressed memory of ancient forests, buried by time and pressure, and now burned back into the sky. But ...

PLÆONTOLOGISTS are now aware that, at the epoch when the coal beds of the Carboniferous Period were deposited, the arthropods were the first of all living creatures to gain the conquest of the ...

Fossilized Douglassarachne acanthopoda, noted for its up-armored spiny legs, might have resemblance to modern harvestmen spiders, but with a more experimental body plan. LAWRENCE — More than 300 ...