About the Carboniferous Period

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Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us About the Carboniferous Period Welcome to the Animals / Wildlife Newsletter, a weekly newsletter published by About.com's Animals / Wildlife website. For more about animals and wildlife, be sure to stop by the growing library of animal profiles. Laura Klappenbach Animals & Wildlife Expert Carboniferous Period: The Age of Amphibians   The Carboniferous Period is a geologic time period that took place between 360 to 286 million years ago. The Carboniferous Period is named after the rich coal deposits that are present in rock layers from this time period.  READ NOW Cambrian Explosion - The History of Life on Earth   The Cambrian Explosion was an evolutionary event that took place between 542 and 520 million years ago. The Cambrian Explosion was an unprecedented and unsurpassed period of evolutionary innovation in the history of our planet. READ NOW Keystone Species: The Wide Reach of a Single Species   A keystone species is a species that plays a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community and whose impact on the community is greater than would be expected based on its relative abundance or total biomass. READ NOW How Communities and Ecosystems Interact   The natural world is characterized by many complex interactions and relationships between animals, plants, and their environment. Individual belong, in turn, to populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Energy flows from one organism to another through these relationships and the presence of one population influences the environment of another population. READ NOW Featured Articles • 9 of the World's Most Unusual Animals • No, You Can't Have Two Spaghettis: 130 Mass Nouns in English • A Bold Plan: The Battle of Germantown • 5 Lies About the Brown Recluse Spider • What Is the Nobel Prize Medal Made Of? • Frankish King Clovis, the First Merovingian • How Much Is the Nobel Prize Worth? • Take an Online Class from a Celebrity Instructor Advertisement About Animals & Wildlife  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Animals & Wildlife newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.