Thursday, April 19, 2007

380 million years old

Wassat? It's a Wattieza, the world's oldest tree (AFP)

Fossil hunters in the United States have found the world's oldest known tree, a palm-like giant of a species called a Wattieza that lived some 380 million years ago. Their discovery resolves a riddle that has dogged paleo-botanists for 137 years and sheds light on how forests slowly yet powerfully sculpted Earth's landscape, the team report in Thursday's Nature, the weekly British science journal.(Nature)AFP - Fossil hunters in the United States have found the world's oldest known tree, a palm-like giant of a species called a Wattieza that lived some 380 million years ago.


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