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 ...

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

Despite its intimidating size, however, it’s truly only the plants of this Carboniferous forest that have anything at all to fear from the animal. Arthropleura is an herbivore, its complex mouthparts ...

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 ...

350-million-year-old forest found: Perfectly preserved trees uncovered in ... but great diversity of plant-like features in the Carboniferous attests to an experimental phase before realizing their ...