Carboniferous coal was produced by bark-bearing ... in length crawled in the company of mammoth cockroaches and scorpions as much as three feet (one meter) long. Most impressive of all were ...

Carboniferous of Europe ... The winged insect climbing a horsetail (equisetum) is a primitive cockroach Manoblatta sp. Flying insects are the large dragonflies (meganeura). At the top centre ...

Cockroaches deserve a certain amount of respect. Scientists believe they originated in the Carboniferous Era about 260 ...