A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

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 ...

Tree ferns grew 30 feet ... a period known as the Carboniferous, have yielded fossils of millipedes, spiders, cockroaches and amphibians. Monster dragonflies with 2.5-foot wingspans ruled the ...

located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said. The fossil ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

What makes this discovery even more significant is the fossil’s age. It dates back to the Carboniferous Period, which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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 ...