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RSS FeedsWorld`s Oldest Fossilized Trees Appear To Be The Most Complex That Ever Lived
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24 october 2017 04:06:24

 
World`s Oldest Fossilized Trees Appear To Be The Most Complex That Ever Lived
(WorldNews China)
 


The fossilized remains of a tree that lived 374 million years ago suggest that the earliest trees we know of might also have been the ones with the most complex internal structure in the history of our planet, IFL Science reports. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on the fossils of cladoxylopsids. While trees today have a central vascular system called a xylem at their center, these ancient specimens had multiple xylems located in the outer 5 centimeters (2 inches) of the trunk. The international team of researchers say this distribution suggests that those trees grew in a different way from their modern counterparts. Nowadays, trees grow...


 
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