3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era ... agile, lizard-like animals. Africa collided with eastern North America in the late Pennsylvanian, an event that formed ...

Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost ... more than a hundred different organisms. The fossil site, dubbed ...

Unearth the nine massive prehistoric animals that lived before dinosaurs. The shield lizard, or the Scutosaurus, arose towards the end of the Carboniferous period, around 298 million years ago.

These organisms became so abundant that by 2 billion years ... What era had the most oxygen? In the Carboniferous Period, plants became well established on land, causing freshwater to enter the soil ...

The class of animals that we refer to as “reptiles” or “reptilia” came into existence in the late Carboniferous period, around 320 million years ago. At present, there are around 12,000 ...

A captivating new species of arachnid from the late Carboniferous period is introduced in a new ... false belief that most of the world’s animals have already been discovered.