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By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

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

More than 300 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur let out a roar, a small, four-legged creature was busy ...

If it weren't for the collapse, our ancestors might never have made it out of the swamps. The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in ...

A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new areas in ...

According to the researchers, the fossil represents an early shift in diet that helped shape modern terrestrial ecosystems.

Scientists discovered the skull of Tyrannoroter, a 307-million-year-old plant-eating vertebrate, in Nova Scotia. The find alters our understanding of early tetrapods and their dietary evolution, ...

The Carboniferous period is pivotal in the geological record, marked by intricate stratigraphic sequences and diverse microfossil assemblages that reveal past environmental conditions and tectonic ...

Arthropleura was the largest invertebrate to ever crawl the Earth. Living during the Carboniferous Period (lasting from about 359.2 to 299 million years ago) and found in the U.K., France, Germany and ...

Over 750,000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest have been cleared since 1970 – a fifth of the total. As a result, many of the animals that live there are threatened with extinction. But this isn’t ...