Editing Prehistory (section)

===Carboniferous Period===
*'''359 to 299 million years ago'''
At this time, the Earth's a hot house. Lots of CO2 in the air and with warm and damp weather. The Result was muggy rainforests of Scale-Trees from the equator to the arctic and antarctic. Most of the world's Coal was made during this period as this was before fungii which could break down cellulose had developed. The result was that logs generally did not rot away and unless they were burned got buried. It was also a time when you got some fucking big bugs, like Dragonflies the size of Falcons and two meter long millipedes.

For the most part, vertebrates at this time were basically [[Salamander]]s of various sizes which would eventually give rise to lizard like things with scales and amniotic eggs that could be laid on land. First there were Anapsids, which would eventually give rise to Synapsids (the ancestors of mammals) and Diapsids (the ancestors of Reptiles, Birds and Dinosaurs). Even so, it was slow going. It was only at the end of the Caboniferous that a few land vertebrates began eating plants.

All the continents of the earth scrunch up into one big continent called Pangaea (literally "The Entire Land"), which will remain the case for the next few geologic periods.