Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

Coal. It powered the industrial revolution and fueled the early development of the science of geology. When the geologic time periods were being named, mainly in Great Britain, the time during which ...

Trunk woods of Early Carboniferous Protopitys buchiana show the earliest example of tylose formation and the first record for a progymnosperm. Protopitys tyloses are more densely located in inner ...

1. Current phylogenetic evidence shows that fire began shaping the evolution of land plants 125 Ma, although the fossil charcoal record indicates that fire has a much longer history (>350 Ma).