Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost in atmospheric oxygen and vast quantities of carbon dioxide trapped in what ...

Tyrannoroter had specialized teeth to pulverize plants It lived 307 million years ago during Carboniferous Period Its skull was found in Canada's Nova Scotia province Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists ...

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 at ...

A new fossil discovery in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is changing scientific views on early plant-eating animals. Named ...

We may be fascinated by the glowing aura of fireflies gently lighting up a summer evening — but their flashing lights aren’t for us. Instead, these bright bursts are a form of communication. Other ...

PLÆONTOLOGISTS are now aware that, at the epoch when the coal beds of the Carboniferous Period were deposited, the arthropods were the first of all living creatures to gain the conquest of the ...

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known ...