Whenever there is talk of fossil, people generally think that it must be of some animal only. But these days the fossil of an ancient tree is being discussed a lot. This 3.5 crore year old fossil is of a tree about which scientists have made many interesting claims. He says that this kind of tree has never been seen anywhere in the world.
This fossil of a 3D crown shaped tree has been found in New Brunswick, Canada. It is believed that these trees of the Sanportdiacollis species might have lived among very tall trees in the forest. Robert Gastaldo of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, says that the way these trees used to remove very long leaves from the stem with their fangs and used to remove them in very large numbers is really shocking.
This study has been published in Current Biology. Gastaldo says that this fossil that he and his colleagues have found is very unique and will not be seen like this in the entire history of life. It flourished in that period of evolution of life when the trees and plants of the forests were going through the process of biodiversity.
Scientists claim that this kind of tree has never been seen before. (Symbolic photo: Tim-Stonesifer
Researchers also say that these trees lived for a short time. But the more special thing is that the way the leaves used to be separated from the top of the tree is not seen in any tree. Researchers said that it has happened very rarely in the records of organisms dating back 40 million years that the trunk of a tree was so preserved along with its top leaves.
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In this way, the preservation of the top leaf of a tree in an ancient fossil is no less surprising. Researchers say that this tree grew in such a way that it could receive more light despite there being more plants nearby. According to him, this can be said to be a proof of the growth of small trees among big trees.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 6, 2024, 15:58 IST
