Trees were one of the oldest dominant life forms on Earth, but the most important component of a tree, the roots, are currently shrouded in evolutionary mystery: when they first evolved, how they evolved; these are unanswered questions. In New York’s Catskill mountain range, a fossilized forest is clueing in paleobotanists as to the origins […]
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