May 4, 2025
One of the world's rarest trees—a prehistoric ‘dinosaur tree’—is bearing fruit for first time after couple planted it in England in 2010.
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One of the world's rarest trees—a prehistoric ‘dinosaur tree’—is bearing fruit for first time after couple planted it in England in 2010.
Scientists baffled over prehistoric tree mystery |
Researchers do not know why trees from more than 300 million years ago have more complex structures than they do today
Trees that grew more than 300 million years ago had a far more complex structure than their counterparts today, research has shown.
The earliest trees had an astonishingly intricate anatomy for reasons scientists do not understand.
Scientists examined the exceptionally well preserved fossilised trunk of a 374 million-year-old cladoxylopsid tree from Xinjiang, north-west China.
What they found surprised them.
(via Scientists baffled over prehistoric tree mystery | The Independent)