An ancient species has had experts scratching their heads about its unusual jaw shape. The salamander-like creature had a ...

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost in atmospheric oxygen and vast quantities of carbon dioxide trapped in what ...

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Could you make it in the swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period? The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A captivating new species of arachnid from the late ...

A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new areas in ...

Dr Aaron Camens, Professor John Long and Dr Alice Clement with a replica of the fossil trackways at Flinders University's Palaeontology Lab. The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to ...

In a study published in Nature Plants, CHAO Daiyin's group at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and LYU Shiyou's group at Hubei University have ...

Arthropleura was the largest invertebrate to ever crawl the Earth. Living during the Carboniferous Period (lasting from about 359.2 to 299 million years ago) and found in the U.K., France, Germany and ...

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A fossil of a strange, squishy creature with a toothy tongue inside its gut has been discovered in good condition. The specimens of this bizarre mollusk-like creature were found in the Carboniferous ...

Long before highways cut across the Ozarks and rice fields spread across the Delta, the ground beneath Arkansas was part of a vast ocean floor. At different moments in deep time, that seafloor hosted ...