Colby College: An Ancient Tree Leads to New Understanding
April 06, 2024
April 06, 2024
WATERVILLE, Maine, April 6 -- Colby College issued the following news:
By Tomas Weber
In December 2017, Robert Gastaldo's phone rang. Two graduate students in Canada had just discovered a strange-looking fossil of a tree in a quarry, on land that, hundreds of millions of years ago, had been at the bottom of a deep lake. This ancient tree had lived around 350 million years ago, 100 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it looked like nothing that either of them h . . .
By Tomas Weber
In December 2017, Robert Gastaldo's phone rang. Two graduate students in Canada had just discovered a strange-looking fossil of a tree in a quarry, on land that, hundreds of millions of years ago, had been at the bottom of a deep lake. This ancient tree had lived around 350 million years ago, 100 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it looked like nothing that either of them h . . .