In New Brunswick, Canada, researchers discovered fossils of a prehistoric tree from the Early Carboniferous period. Evidence of the alien-like tree was first unearthed in a quarry in 2017.

The fossil tree, Pitys withamii, lived during the Carboniferous Period, which lasted from around 359 to 299 million years ago. Many of the coal beds that Britain came to rely on formed at this time, ...

One exquisitely detailed fossil of a dragonfly that died 320 ... wings developed from appendages used to glide between trees in the Carboniferous forests. Amphibians were also growing in size ...

The Pennsylvanian might make up a hefty chunk of one of Earth’s most important periods, the Carboniferous ... fossils of species of Cordaites – an extinct group of 30-meter (100-foot) tall ...

Among these, an uncovering of Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, a tree species from 350 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, is something of a revelation. While no longer alive, their fossils ...

The fossil seems to date back toward the end of the Carboniferous period and into ... And this could be a one-of-a-kind fossil in the tree of life … of evolution of amphibians, to reptiles ...

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the “coal age Galápagos” due to their wealth of fossils from the ...

Conifer tree fossil from Dorset. We don’t just have to look to fossils ... Plants flourished even before dinosaurs roamed the planet. In the Carboniferous Period, 359 to 299 million years ago, plants ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

depicted hunting a crustation in a reef-like crinoidal forest during the Carboniferous period. | Credit: NPS Illustration / Benji Paysnoe Researchers collecting fossils deep inside Kentucky's ...