A new 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 ...

Kyle and Natalie gain access to an incredible fossil site in Alabama filled with plant remains from the Carboniferous Period more than 320 million years ago. What begins as a fossil hunt quickly ...

Long before large reptiles dominated the land, Arthropleura moved through dense Carboniferous forests as the largest known terrestrial invertebrate Fossil trackways and body impressions suggest an ...

The spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid Douglassarachne acanthopoda was discovered the famous Mazon Creek locality. More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the ...

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing at ...

IT may perhaps be interesting to the readers of NATURE to know that here at Oldham we have recently laid bare a fine sample of a carboniferous forest. We are here, as you are aware, situated on the ...