Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

The Carboniferous Period ... tangled swamps filled with enormous plants like Lepidodendron and Calamites. These conditions created an atmosphere that allowed creatures to grow to sizes ...

TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

Fans of prehistoric monsters need to make a beeline for Mansfield Museum where they can come face to face with dog-sized ...

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

It grew up to 2.6 meters long and lived in the forests and swamps during the Carboniferous period. The high oxygen levels back then helped it grow so large. As a herbivore, it ate decaying plants ...

This reptile probably was a predator because plant-eating did not appear until ... that left the Australian footprints lived during the Carboniferous Period, a time when global temperatures ...