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Carboniferous Period

(359.2 - 299 MYA)
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Ophiacodons

The History of Air

Paleontologists are looking to the fossil record to decipher what the earth's atmosphere was like hundreds of millions of years ago
April 19, 2010 | By Brian Switek

John Nelson and Scott Elrick inspect a mine shaft

The World's Largest Fossil Wilderness

An Illinois coal mine holds a snapshot of life on earth 300 million years ago, when a massive earthquake "froze" a swamp in time
July 2009 | By Guy Gugliotta


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