Another idea is that insect wings developed from appendages used to glide between trees in the Carboniferous forests. Amphibians were also growing in size and diversity. There were predatory ...

Carboniferous of Europe ... and may have lived in burrows. There is an amphibian resting beyond the calamite trunk, at the base of a lepidodendron trunk.

Amniotes began to radiate in the Carboniferous into many niches previously held by amphibians, plus new niches. The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids ...

Scientists have discovered a new ancient amphibian species that could bridge the gap in understanding how modern-day frogs ...

The researchers identified the fossil as a temnospondyl, a diverse group of primitive amphibian relatives that lived for more than 200 million years from the Carboniferous to the Triassic periods.