This is not the stuff of fantasy, but a reality of Earth during the Carboniferous period, over 300 million years ago. During ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones ...

In addition to the summits of The Three Peaks - Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough - which each year attract thousands ...

The newly-identified shark species is believed to have swam in the Carboniferous-period seas 340 million years ago. It belongs to the family Obruchevodidae within an order of extinct cartilaginous ...

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 ...