Researchers Characterize a 300-Million-Year Old Forest.

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/...300-million-year-old-forest-preserved-pompeii

http://gizmodo.com/5886774/extraord...old-forest-discovered-under-chinese-coal-mine

http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/15/1115076109.DCSupplemental/pnas.201115076SI.pdf

Really great finding. Any ideas if they can recreate the trees and plants?

 

They cannot reconstruct the forest, after all, the DNA is long gone, but this is a good finding in it's own right just for the sake of archaeology. Quite interesting

 

Read the third link. It's not gone.

 

Interesting indeed, never eared, goood searching tho.

 

Yeah. I'm more interested in the pre-animal DNAs though than the trees, hopefully more information will come out soon.