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 ...

trees that grew up to around 30 meters (100 feet) and which may be the earliest conifers. These lesions form when insects lay their eggs on the surface of a plant, and the newfound fossils suggest ...