Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing trees that grew in vast lowland swamp forests. Vegetation included giant club mosses, tree ferns, great horsetails, and towering trees with strap ...

Tree ferns live in moist, cold gullies in eastern Australia. We’ve planted tree ferns to recreate the coal swamp forests of the Carboniferous Period. It was during this geological period that many of ...

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 ...

Its appearance resembles a fern or palm tree, although the oldest tree fern ... suggesting that life in the Early Carboniferous period was more complex than previously believed.

This discovery sheds light on the adaptations and evolution of ferns during a time ... to learn how these primitive plants evolved and reproduced during the Carboniferous Period, at the end ...