With folded blades, a drone fits in tight places. Picture a cylinder 15 cm (6 in) wide and 1 m (3 ft) long – about the size ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

That places the creatures as having lived during the early Carboniferous period, a time when Earth was covered in trees, and vast deposits of coal were beginning to form.

The carboniferous period is represented in the islands by extensive coal-bearing strata, which are now being utilized. The most interesting deposits there have up to now been regarded by ...

The Carboniferous forests represented by the Glasgow fossils played a crucial role in Earth’s geological and economic history – they eventually transformed into the coal deposits that powered the ...

New evidence that low levels of atmospheric CO2 led to the longest ice age in Earth’s history.

Carboniferous Garden There’s more to the Carboniferous than just coal! The Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Era began 354 million years ago. It lasted for about 64 million years, until 290 ...

The Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Erabegan 354 million years ago. It lasted for about 64 million years, until 290 million years ago. The name ‘Carboniferous’ came from the large amounts of ...

The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come - to earn the title of Fully ...

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost in atmospheric oxygen and vast quantities of carbon dioxide trapped in what ...