We have found the oldest fossil forest on Earth: Tipa de protárboles
Researchers from Cardiff and Cambridge universities found the oldest fossil forest in Great Britain in Britain. Until before this discovery, that title belonged to the remains of another forest found in New York in 2019, which dates back to around 386 million years. This, discovered in 2024, is four million years older.
The Britain forest dates from approximately 390 million years ago, that is, it lived during the average devonic. En dicho periodo la vida comenzó a expandirse hacia la tierra, y al final del mismo aparecieron las primeras plantas con semilla y los primeros animales terrestres. The first trees of which you have a record were also emerged. That was the oldest forest of the worldly fossilized trees, known as Calamophyton, were discovered on the southern shore of the Bristol Canal, near Minehead. At first glance they resemble palm trees, but they are thinner and hollow prototers. Their penacho cups have sheets without leaves. These trees fulfilled the function of bio -minorphic agents during the devonic. Los investigadores creen que había una conexión entre los entornos marinos y de la superficie.La gran abundancia de escombros arrojados por los Calamophyton se acumuló dentro de capas de sedimento. This sediment affected the way in which the rivers ran through the landscape, being the first time that the course of the rivers could be affected in this way, the scientists explained in a statement from the University of Cambridge. Underground, the researchers assumed that this section of the English coast did not contain fossils of important plants. The finding of this fossilized forest showed that the first trees helped shape the landscapes and stabilize the banks of rivers and coasts hundreds of millions of years. The period of devonic fish was a geological period, part of the Paleozoic era, which covered almost 600 million years. During this time, the weather on Earth was warm and humid as a result of the oceans, whose temperature was higher than the current one. Due to the proliferation of life in the seas, it is known as the period of the fish. According to National Geographic, during that time, Godwanas supercontinent moved away from the South Pole and began to go to the north. This is how a second Supercontinent began to be created: Lausaria, formed after the meeting of North America, North Europe, Russia and Greenland.
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