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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing ...