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Published online 18 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070416-10
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Full fossil found for the earliest trees
Discovery provides the first view of early forests.
Palaeontologists have uncovered a whole sample of the oldest known trees, providing a glimpse of what the Earth's earliest forests might have looked like.
Incomplete fossils of these trees were first found in a rock quarry in upstate New York in the late 1800s and were classified as Eospermatopteris.
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