Scieists near New York City have discovered the world’s oldest fossil forest dating back about 2 million years. This ancie forest shows how the first evolved forests were involved in the formation of the Earth’s atmosphere. This forest is located near the city of Cairo in Green Couy. The trees of this forest were not simple plas; They were large, evolved trees with roots similar to today’s trees. Ierestingly, this forest existed about 5 million years before the adve of dinosaurs (Earth).
Photographer: Unknown / Kolnegar.ir site
Discovery of the world’s oldest fossil forest
Three million years ago, northern New York, near the equator, was located in a tropical area with ancie forests growing on it. Today, the same land is located in northeast America due to the moveme of coines, and the fossils of ancie forests are still there. This ancie forest is located in abandoned mineral and its area reaches about half a football field; This is the only small part of a huge forest that once walked from New York to Pennsylvania. Charles Ver Straetn, head of sedimeary rocks at the New York State Museum, discovered the place. When examining the old land, Charles Vare, with his sharp look, saw patterns in stone that resembled traces or works of marine creatures.
About the world’s oldest fossil forest
In the ancie forest, there are 5 million years old stones. The roots of ancie trees that are fossilized in fossils, such as a network or map, have spread to the ground. This network or patterns are horizoal and about 1.5 meters in length. When you walk in this area, you look at big roots. The discovery shows that the trees of this ancie forest appeared millions of years earlier than what researchers thought. Millions of years ago, it covered the huge flood of the forest and buried the roots of the trees under the sedimes. Over time, the sedimes and the roots became fossil. Today, these roots, like a window to the past, show us the history of ancie forests.
The star of the world’s oldest fossil forest is Archaeopteris, which should not be confused with Archaeopteryx dinosaur. This old tree was very differe from the trees of its time. Its roots were surprisingly similar to the roots of today’s trees. Some fossilized roots of this tree are about 5 cm in diameter and a network of these roots is about 2 meters wide on the ground. These gia trees were up to 2 meters high and trunks with a diameter of 1.5 meters.
Photographer: Unknown / site itResan.com
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