Companies have sunk wood chips off the coast of Iceland and are planning to sink Sargassum, a yellowish-brown seaweed, to extreme depths. The startup Carboniferous is preparing a federal permit to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Underground rivers and streams forged the cave's passages, which are made up of rocks that have preserved marine sediment from the Carboniferous period (358.9 million to 298.9 million years ago).

The entire animal stretches more than eight feet from the front of its head to the trailing tip of its many-segmented body. Despite its intimidating size, however, it’s truly only the plants of this ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

Based on the database of geochemical, mineralogy and physical lab measurements, this study investigates the paleoenvironmental conditions and shale gas potential of the Carboniferous Dawuba and ...

Contrary to what most people think, rats and mice are not the only kinds of rodents to exist, although they are some of the most common. Apart from being mostly pests, rodents are some of the most ...