Imagine a world where giant insects and bizarre creatures ... This three-foot titan from the Carboniferous Period challenges everything we thought we knew about arachnids, sparking fascination ...

The growth of vast forests removed significant amounts of carbon dioxide, resulting in atmospheric oxygen levels potentially ...

This time period took place ... wet and humid. Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing trees that grew in vast lowland swamp forests. Vegetation included giant club mosses, tree ferns ...

In the wild, the waste of roaches nourishes growing plants, continuing the cycle. 300 million years ago, the Carboniferous period was the cockroaches' day in the sun so to speak. The whole earth ...

Fossils show that giant dragonflies and huge cockroaches were common during the Carboniferous period, which lasted from about 359 to 299 million years ago. (Explore a prehistoric time line.) ...

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

After the Cambrian Period came ... as the "Age of the Cockroaches," because roaches' ancient ancestor (Archimylacris eggintoni) was found all across the globe during the Carboniferous.