Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period ... a hundred different organisms. The fossil site, dubbed Lantern North, was ...

3 min read The Carboniferous period ... 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). How insects first became ...

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their wealth of fossils from the ...

The Museum declined this request, but noted that another Carboniferous trunk from Craigleith Quarry was already on public display at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. At 10.5 metres long, it is ...

located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said. The fossil ...