PBS Eons: Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period?

There's a new episode of PBS Eons.  This one is about the coal swamps of the late Carboniferous Period.

The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes – the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come – to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial Vertebrates. It’s getting more crowded on land – could you survive?

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