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

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 ...

If it weren't for the collapse, our ancestors might never have made it out of the swamps. The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point ...

Some of these later became extinct, perhaps during the so-called ‘Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse,’ a time shortly after the age of Mazon Creek when the coal forests began to fragment and ...

A minor extinction event of both marine and land life, known as the Carboniferous rainforest collapse, happened at the end of the period due to climate change.

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 ...

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 ...