How coal is formed
It's a recipe that requires lots of dead plants, cooked at high pressure and temperature for millions of years.
Tag: carboniferous
Coal formation sucked so much CO2 out of the atmosphere that Earth nearly froze over 300 million years ago
"It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major factor for dangerous global warming once ...
350-million-year-old former inhabitant of Gondwana found
A 350 million year old fossilized scorpion has become the world's oldest known land animal to have ever walked the ...
GeoPicture of the week: Giant Dragonfly fossil
This is a Cast of an original fossil of a Meganeuridae. If you're scared of dragonflies, brace yourself for this: ...
Ancient Fossilized Sea Creatures Yield Oldest Biomolecules Isolated Directly from a Fossil
Paleontologists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn't survive fossilization; but to contradict this long standing belief, some 350-million-year-old ...
300 million year insects pictured in 3D
Researchers managed to construct a three dimensional (3D) portrait of two nymphs that inhabited our planet 305 million years ago ...
