Scientists Find the World’s Oldest Known Forest, Dating Back 386 Million Years

Yale e360
Dec 31, 2019, 8:00 am343 pts
Scientists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest known forest — a set of 386-million-year-old fossilized root systems found in an old sandstone quarry in the Catskill Mountains in New York. The researchers say the new site is evidence that forests developed 2 to 3 million years earlier…

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