Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

The newly-identified shark species is believed to have swam in the Carboniferous-period seas 340 million years ago. It belongs to the family Obruchevodidae within an order of extinct cartilaginous ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen species of ancient shark. Named Clavusodens mcginnisi, or McGinnis’ nail ...

Companies have sunk wood chips off the coast of Iceland and are planning to sink Sargassum, a yellowish-brown seaweed, to ...

Based on their depth distribution, it seems like the earthquakes are primarily driven by the elastic strain in the reservoir and overburden, induced by the reservoir compaction. We estimate the ...

Scientists are exploring geological layers dating back to the Carboniferous period, when the region was covered by a warm ocean teeming with diverse marine creatures. Clavusodens mcginnisi measured ...