{"id":185265,"date":"2024-03-16T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/earths-oldest-fossilized-forest-has-been-hiding-its-bizarre-trees-for-390-million-years"},"modified":"2024-03-16T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:03:26","slug":"earths-oldest-fossilized-forest-has-been-hiding-its-bizarre-trees-for-390-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/earths-oldest-fossilized-forest-has-been-hiding-its-bizarre-trees-for-390-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Oldest Fossilized Forest Has Been Hiding Its Bizarre Trees For 390 Million Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-oldest-fossilized-forest-has-been-hiding-its-bizarre-trees-for-390-million-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highest sea cliffs in England have been hiding the oldest fossilized forest yet found on planet Earth. The long-lost ecosystem\u2019s palm-like trees, called <i><i>Calamophyton<\/i>s<\/i>, are 390 million years old.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s roughly three or four million years older than the previous record holder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-think-they-ve-found-the-world-s-oldest-fossilised-forest\">found across the Atlantic<\/a> in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>In southwest England, the red sandstone rock face where scientists found the imprints of logs, roots, and twigs was once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0031018223002894\">considered<\/a> \u201cbarren of trace fossils\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest sea cliffs in England have been hiding the oldest fossilized forest yet found on planet Earth. The long-lost ecosystem\u2019s palm-like trees, called Calamophytons, are 390 million years old. That\u2019s roughly three or four million years older than the previous record holder, found across the Atlantic in New York State. In southwest England, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185265","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}