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http://gizmodo.com/5886774/extraordinary-298+million+year+old-forest-discovered-under-chinese-coal-mine
American and Chinese scientists are flabbergasted after discovering a giant 298-million-year-old forest buried intact under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China.
They are calling it the Pompeii of the Permian period because, like the ancient Roman city, it was covered and preserved by volcanic ash.
Like Pompeii, this swamp forest is so perfectly maintained that scientists know where every plant originally was. This has allowed them to map it and to create the images above. This extraordinary finding "is like Pompeii", according to University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn, who characterized it as "a time capsule."
It's marvelously preserved. We can stand there and find a branch with the leaves attached, and then we find the next branch and the next branch and the next branch. And then we find the stump from the same tree. That's really exciting.
They are in fact finding entire trees and plants exactly as they were at the time of the volcanic eruption, just like archeologists in Pompeii found humans, animals and buildings at the base of Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. Except Pompeei was buried in AD 79 and this forest was covered in ash 298 million years ago, during the Permian period.
But..But.. I thought the earth was only 6000 years old ?!?!
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Cool.
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Very cool
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Outbreak of 298 million year old plague in 5...4...3
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Awesome find, imagine all the scientists creaming their jeans in regards the amount of biospherical data available from that perfect preservation. 
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The devil is ALWAYS testing us! Sheesh!
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Moe_Nox posted:
Outbreak of 298 million year old plague in 5...4...3
Given the age of the forest it would be fairly unlikely for it to harbor a plague that would infect mammals. 
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jurassic park?
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Ok fine. Rampaging Mecha Godzilla in 5...4...3
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Mastara posted:
jurassic park?
Too old. Jurassic was roughly 200 million years ago to 145 million years ago.
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Scarne posted:
Mastara posted:
jurassic park?
Too old. Jurassic was roughly 200 million years ago to 145 million years ago.
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I bet they were bummed they couldn't burn it for energy.
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There were at least 2 massive 'Life-Terminating-Deep-Impacts' within that time frame that could account for the degree of Ash Dispersion required.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, creature fossils they find.
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Dae_twat's head must be exploding that he can't post in this thread!!
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YOU CAPITALIST PIGS WOULD HAVE JUST SAID "SCREW IT WE NEED THE COAL!". IT TAKES GREAT COMMUNIST CHINA TO PRESERVE AND CHERISH SUCH FIND!
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They only stopped because they stopped finding coal.
If there was coal in those tree trunks humanity would never have known a thing about that forest.
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Moe_Nox posted:
Outbreak of 298 million year old plague in 5...4...3
when I saw Noeggerathiales... an extinct tree species that propagates with spores... I thought the same thing. If it happens I hope it is like 28 days later.
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Dae_twat's head must be exploding that he can't post in this thread!!
He got banzord? Not exactly unexpected...
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He got banzord?
Yea, a topic drifted into that minefield known as "relative penis sizes" and he completely melted down. 
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I never paid too much attention to these things. :P But what would happen if they were able to bring these plants back? Would there be any kind of environmental changes? Probably not eh?
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I soooooooooooo want to time travel to that place!
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I bet they make chop sticks from it.
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There were at least 2 massive 'Life-Terminating-Deep-Impacts' within that time frame that could account for the degree of Ash Dispersion required.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, creature fossils they find.
I could be wrong, but in that time period I don't believe there was much in the way of creatures. They hadn't come into existance yet 
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Crackdoc posted:
There were at least 2 massive 'Life-Terminating-Deep-Impacts' within that time frame that could account for the degree of Ash Dispersion required.
It will be interesting to see what, if any, creature fossils they find.
I could be wrong, but in that time period I don't believe there was much in the way of creatures. They hadn't come into existance yet
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During this time there were also animals. This is when the first groups of mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs and archosaurs started to roam the Earth. Scientist believe that the Permian—and with it the entire Paleozoic era—ended with the largest mass extinction ever, which obliterated 90 percent of the marine and 70 percent of the terrestrial species.
Even though this isn't as popular as the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, that's pretty mind-boggling how much life was wiped out at that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event
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