We were gobsmacked': 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen

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Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy.

We were gobsmacked': 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen : Read more

 

[Overlord Damon]

Dang, Olivia King looking hot with that 350 year old tree.

 

[danr2222]

I need a better article. The numbers, branchings, photos, meter-scale, trunk, and computer reconstruction aren't adding up.
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The question marks under Figs. 6 and 7 in the source paper leaves open just how long the trunk really was, and since it was ripped out and transported from its origin before burying; and being a decidedly unique form of tree/plant, perhaps what we are calling the 'trunk', was mostly actually a significant part of its rooting system. The latter, both living and fossil, are known to have a diversity almost as great as above-ground architectures.

 

[BRS]

I need a better article. The numbers, branchings, photos, meter-scale, trunk, and computer reconstruction aren't adding up.
edit:
The question marks under Figs. 6 and 7 in the source paper leaves open just how long the trunk really was, and since it was ripped out and transported from its origin before burying; and being a decidedly unique form of tree/plant, perhaps what we are calling the 'trunk', was mostly actually a significant part of its rooting system. The latter, both living and fossil, are known to have a diversity almost as great as above-ground architectures.

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