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Ancient trees on land grew by tearing themselves apart

Sep 3, 2026

ZMG - Amaze Lab

This might look like strangely textured stone, but it’s actually the fossilized remains of a prehistoric forest. They say this tree stump dates back some 390 million years, when life on our planet was first stretching out onto land. Now experts say it had a strange way of growing by literally ripping itself apart.
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