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

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 ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

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

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

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 ...

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 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 ...