The Carboniferous and Permian periods (358 ... The results of the study show that tetrapod diversity decreased after the rainforest collapse and the onset of drier conditions, largely due ...

Toward the end of the Carboniferous period ... Palaeontologists have previously struggled to work out how this rainforest collapse affected the first ancient vertebrate animals that lived there ...

Toward the end of the Carboniferous period, around 307m years ago, the planet’s environment shifted dramatically, and its vast tropical rainforests vanished. Palaeontologists have previously struggled ...

In the Carboniferous period, North America and Europe lay at the equator and were covered by steamy rainforest. Global warming is thought to have brought about the collapse of these tropical ...

In the Carboniferous period, North America and Europe lay at the equator and were covered by steamy rainforest. Global warming is thought to have brought about the collapse of these tropical ...

This event happened during the Carboniferous Period ... should the Amazon rainforest collapse." To reach their conclusions, the scientists studied the fossil record of reptiles before and after ...