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 ...
A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp—some 50 to 70 million years ...
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A twisted fossil jaw reveals a strange 275-million-year-old animal
Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw about six inches long, curved and thick, and twisted in an unexpected way. A ...
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3 meters long, 50 kilos heavy: This giant creature really existed 300 million years ago long before dinosaurs ruled Earth
The fossil measured only 4 centimeters, nowhere near the giants that made Arthropleura famous. Yet this small specimen, found at Montceau-les-Mines in France, ended up yielding one of the missing ...
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