Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

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 ...

Fans of prehistoric monsters need to make a beeline for Mansfield Museum where they can come face to face with dog-sized ...

This reptile probably was a predator because plant ... as well as fossil footprints from about the same time. The reptile that left the Australian footprints lived during the Carboniferous Period ...

This revealed an even more extensive fossil forest that has since become one of the most important Carboniferous plant fossil sites in the world. Unlike many fossils that are found as compressed ...