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Reuters: Ancient cypress trees rooted in a Hungarian coal bed |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:37 pm |
| Tags: science stories |
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Reuters has no byline on this small item, but it’s worth noting for the striking pictures alone. Sixteen cypress trees are in the sun for the first time in about 8 million years, freed by miners from sand covering a coal seam. Some of them are several meters high and their wood is still more like wood than stone. It means things were warmer there, back in the Miocene. Already, climate-change-is-not-our-fault yahoos will be snorting “Hah! Weren’t no SUVs back then, neither!” -CP [ Full article ] |
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