The Carboniferous marshes were not without their reptilian inhabitants; but they were Reptiles of the lowest class, the so-called Amphibians, those which are hatched from the egg in an immature ...

The study reconstructs a Carboniferous rainforest at the largest spatial scale ever attempted. The fossils show that the Earth’s first rainforests were highly diverse and that the kinds of tree ...

The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for that time when the ...

Earth’s first rainforest has been found in an Illinois coalmine, according to research published in Geology. The 300 million year fossilized forest consists of a mix of extinct plants including ...

Carboniferous forest. Mark Ryan Toward the end of the Carboniferous period, the number of tetrapod species had begun to increase greatly. But then the climate became much drier, causing a mass ...

The study reconstructs a Carboniferous rainforest at the largest spatial scale ever attempted. The fossils show that the Earth's first rainforests were highly diverse and that the kinds of tree ...