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

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

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 ...

Tracks found in early Carboniferous-period rocks in southeast Australia ... This left much of the planet to invertebrates such as insects and giant millepedes. Vertebrates’ big advance came ...

Arthropleura was a giant millipede-like creature and one ... long and lived in the forests and swamps during the Carboniferous period. The high oxygen levels back then helped it grow so large.

The reptile that left the Australian footprints lived during the Carboniferous Period, a time when global ... There were forests, partly composed of giant clubmoss trees. "The tracks were left ...

There's a buzz around Arizona today that isn't related to the giant cockroaches in our newsroom ... How do we know that we can drink that much in such a short period of time? We've all been stuck at a ...

The Carboniferous period, spanning from approximately 358 to 298 million years ago, was a unique time in Earth’s history. It is often referred to as the “Age of Giant Insects” due to the astonishingly ...