Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous ... eggs on the surface of a plant, and the newfound fossils suggest insects may have ...

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, ...

3 min read The Carboniferous period ... Over millions of years, the organic deposits of this plant debris formed the world's first extensive coal deposits—coal that humans are still burning ...

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 ...