Evidence of the world's oldest forest, dating back some 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study
The fossilized roots-- footprints of an ancient landscape-- belonged to trees with wood and leaves, similar to what we see today, the study says.This find was made in Cairo, about 40 miles south of Albany. Previously, scientists thought a fossilized forest in Gilboa, New York, was the earliest, but the one in Cairo is two or three million years older and dramatically different.Scinetists stand on the edge of an Archaeopteris tree root system.
What an ancient forest teaches usLocal officials placed rocks to try to protect the fossils from fourwheelers.The discovery provides a snapshot of one of the planet's great transitional periods, between an earth with no forests and an earth that's covered in forests, Berry said.For context, the Cairo forest is about 140 million years older than the first dinosaurs that roamed the earth.
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