300-million-year-old forest discovered preserved in volanic ash
Monday, February 20, 2012 - 21:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. Paleobotanists have reconstructed this fossilized forest, lending insight into the ecology and climate of its time.