But when examining the new fossils, they found a strange combination ... looking beast may have actually been the “cow of the ...

Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing ... One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly that died 320 million years ago shows it had a wingspan of 2.5 feet (0.75 meters).

Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) announced the discovery of a ...

The fossil tree, Pitys withamii, lived during the Carboniferous Period, which lasted from around 359 to 299 million years ago. Many of the coal beds that Britain came to rely on formed at this time, ...

Fossils of many extant and extinct arachnid ... They point to spininess in other arthropods of the late Carboniferous era, such as trigonotarbids and millipedes–which didn’t exhibit spines ...

Reconstruction of the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived in the Carboniferous period, 326 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Meanwhile, the Carboniferous fauna of the seas is unaffected ... with Special Reference to the Fossil Flora. By B. O. Feistmantel. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, 1890.

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing ...

In the Carboniferous Period, 359 to 299 million years ago, plants grew in swampy, green bogs that over time became the coal deposits we use today as fossil fuels. Among the plants that grew back then ...

A team from the University of St Andrews used fossils to work out how much CO2 changed during the Carboniferous and Permian periods between 335 to 265 million years ago, a time known as the Late ...