The Carboniferous Period stretched from about 359 million to 299 million years ago. It featured vast swampy forests, giant insects, and a rise in atmospheric oxygen levels. Land masses were arranged ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period.

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

That's when she "saw roaches crawling on the plane," she said. The airline gave Berry a voucher — but that didn’t change her mind about never flying with the airline again, she said in a ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

One is the late medieval period’s belief in marvels ... At right, hunters chase a giant snail up a hill, their spears tall and sharp. At left, a man and wife make their home in one snail ...

The tracks, found in rocks from the Carboniferous period, about 350 million years ago, suggest the presence of an amniote - a vertebrate with clawed feet, likely an early reptile, according to a ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

A reclusive Chinese billionaire whose prescient gold trades turned into an eye-catching windfall has now become the country’s biggest copper bull, amassing a bet worth nearly $1 billion in a ...