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 ...

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 ...

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 ...