Ancient forest ecosystems and evolution.

photojack

18th April 2007 - 05:50 PM

http://www.physorg.com/news96120968.html

A forest system that predates the evolution of Gymnosperms and the flowering plants. This caused the atmospheric changes that enabled evolution to develop in a climate conducive to metabolizing animals. As a child, I remember reading about fern tree forests when "continental drift" was a much ballyhooed concept. Now it has morphed into plate tectonics and has been proven beyond doubt. I wonder if they have found the three foot long Dragonflies I heard of back then?

kaneda

19th April 2007 - 09:26 PM

I posted that information to our resident genius, dud1.

He claims that his brain is not the same one as he had a week ago and that he has not had the time to get any information in it yet.

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