Terrestrial plant and animal life ... of life on land." Such a detailed record of this little-known period of time is sure to continue revealing secrets of the early Carboniferous in future ...

Identified from remains found inside fossilized Carboniferous tree stumps, they were small, agile, lizard-like animals. Africa collided with eastern North America in the late Pennsylvanian ...

These fossils provide an exceptional window into the appearances, evolution and anatomies of prehistoric animals ... tetrapods evolved to live on land. The fossilized skin is so well preserved ...