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, ...

The tree fossils that were uncovered in New Brunswick ... This species thrived in the Carboniferous period. The Carboniferous period is often noted as a time with an explosion of genetic diversity ...

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 ...

In the oxygen-rich air of the Carboniferous period ... the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura ...