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		nhebb on Feb 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 300 million year old fossilized forest discovered ... It's too bad they just show a reconstructed image of what the forest looked like. I would really like to see what the fossilized remains of an "almost perfectly preserved 298 million year-old forest" looks like rather than an artist's rendering.

jws on Feb 22, 2012 | [–]

The journal article supporting information has pictures.

http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/15/1115076109.DCSu...

… don't despair at the little line chart, scroll down.

libraryatnight on Feb 22, 2012 | | [–]

When they described it as being like Pompeii my imagination might have gotten the best of me and expected too much :) Very cool photos nonetheless

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