Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

Mongabay
May 31, 2022, 5:32 am240 pts
On a breezeless, sunbaked beach in Borneo, one of the biggest challenges paleobotanist Peter Wilf faced in his team’s hunt for plant fossils was getting used to a new set of tools. The damp soil they were probing for ancient plant detritus had never fully formed into stone, so it crumbled with all but the…

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