Tag: rainforests
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ESCONI September 2023 General Meeting – Friday, September 8th, 2023 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Tropical rainforests – A 300-million-year-old history”
The September 2023 General Meeting will be held on Friday, September 8th, 2023 at 8:00 PM via Zoom. Our speaker is Fabiany Herrera, who is the Assistant Curator of Paleobotany at the Field Museum. Mazon Monday #178 was about a recent paper by Fabiany. Approximately eighty plant taxa have been recognized from the Mazon Creek…
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NYT: Fossils of a Prehistoric Rainforest Hide in Australia’s Rusted Rocks
The New York Times has a story about an amazing fossil rain forest. Dating to about 15 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch, this deposit hold exquisitely preserved insects, spiders, plans, even a feather. A description of the site was published recently in the journal Science Advances, Fifteen million years ago, a river carved…
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LiveScience: Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice
LiveScience has a story about a fossil rainforest under the ice in Antarctica. This forest was found in West Antarctica and dates to about 90 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period. The fossils show a tropical climate similar to New Zealand. Read all about it in a paper in the April 1st, 2020, edition…
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PBS Eons: When the Rainforests Collapsed
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the plants during the Carboniferous Period. That’s the same time period as Mazon Creek! This episode discusses one of just two mass extinctions of plants in the fossil record. Spoiler… Climate Change played a big role. The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for…
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Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates
Phys.org has a story about a mass extinction in plants that occurred during the Pennsylvannian Period. Researchers from the University of Birmingham published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The mass extinction seems to have been caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago. This led to…
