The classic coal-swamp lycopsid genus Lepidodendron (Lepidodendrales) is transformed from apparent paraphyly to monophyly by segregating 'L.' serratum as a new genus, Hizemodendron, currently ...

Tristen Klavenga was searching for turtles and snakes while walking with friends on a creek off the Cahaba River in Irondale on Saturday. It wasn’t a turtle or a tree that was the highlight of ...

Tristen Klavenga was searching for turtles and snakes while walking with friends on a creek off the Cahaba River in Irondale on Saturday. It wasn’t a turtle or a tree that was the highlight of ...

While walking along a local creek in Birmingham, Alabama, Tristen Klavenga came across a rock by the side of the stream that appeared to be covered in scales. At first, Klavenga thought it might have ...

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Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing at ...

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PROFESSOR DYER has already discovered one of the many new facts with which he has yet to become familiar, and hastens, in a straightforward manner, to acknowledge the circumstance; but I must again ...