The Wrecsam National Eisteddfod’s Crown and Chair have been presented to the festival’s Executive Committee, at a special ceremony in Coleg Cambria. The Crown is sponsored by Elin Haf Davies and the ...

They thrived on our planet during the Carboniferous period which was around 300 million years ago and contributed significantly to the coal deposits that we see today. Sigillaria reproduced using ...

The Carboniferous Period: A Different Earth. Forest. Photo by John Moeses Bauan via Unsplash. To understand the significance of this petrified forest, we must travel back in time to the Carboniferous ...

Coal facies analysis suggested that the coal-forming environment of the Longtan formation was a low living water moist forest swamp with specific hydrodynamic conditions. The swamp plants in a ...

American and Chinese scientists are flabbergasted after discovering a giant 298-million-year-old forest buried intact under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, ... This geologic period happened ...

First, it led to the creation of iconic “coal forests” full of giant insects in the Carboniferous period during the ice age. It also paved the way for the rise of reptiles in the Permian ...

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 ...

During the very last part of the Carboniferous period the weather got so cold that glaciers formed. ©Georgina Burrows/iStock/Getty Images via Getty Images. At the end of the Carboniferous Period, ...

This period, shortly after the age of Mazon Creek, saw coal forests fragmenting and dying off. Alternatively, these strange arachnids might have survived until the end-Permian mass extinction.

Once a spider-like species that crawled through the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe have now been traced back to an ancient species of arachnid named Douglassarachne ...