{"id":185106,"date":"2024-03-14T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-discover-bizarre-and-ancient-fossilized-forest"},"modified":"2024-03-14T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:22:42","slug":"scientists-discover-bizarre-and-ancient-fossilized-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-discover-bizarre-and-ancient-fossilized-forest","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Bizarre and Ancient Fossilized Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-bizarre-and-ancient-fossilized-forest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.<\/p>\n<p>Tantalizingly, this forest is unlike anything you could see in today\u2019s natural environment. As detailed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyellcollection.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1144\/jgs2023-204\" class=\"\">a new paper in the <em>Journal of Geological Study<\/em><\/a>, the trees \u2014 which look like giant 13-foot thistles \u2014 are considered some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/world-s-first-trees-grew-splitting-their-guts\" class=\"\">first to appear in our planet\u2019s long history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable feature about these trees, known as <i>Calamophyton,<\/i><i> <\/i>is that they had hollow trunks and were composed of smaller, multiple trunk-like strands ringing the hollow. The smaller trees would expand and eventually grow so thick and big that the entire structure would split apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found. Tantalizingly, this forest is unlike anything you could see in today\u2019s natural environment. As detailed in a new paper in the Journal of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}