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.

In the Carboniferous period we begin to find perfectly preserved specimens of the Ganoids, and the adjoining wood-cut represents such a one.

Could you make it in the swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period? The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all ...

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

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 ...

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The fossilized remains of the creature, named Arthropleura, dated from the Carboniferous Period about 326 million years ago. That’s over 100 million years before the rise of the dinosaurs.

Antarctica served as a climatic refuge for animals during the world's largest known, and probably global warming-fueled, mass extinction event, according to new research that focused on one ...

IN NATURE of September 17 there is an interesting discussion between Rev. W. S. Fleming and Prof. E. W. MacBride in regard to the Gondwana flora and glaciation in Antarctica in Permo-carboniferous ...

In contrast, the animals and landscapes of the Carboniferous period are relatively understudied. Palaeontologists and geologists are collaborating to close these gaps in our knowledge.