🪨 PLANT FOSSILS: READING DEEP TIME
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ROCKS REMEMBER
PLANTS THAT BECAME ROCK
Long before humans existed, forests grew, leaves fell, and pollen drifted on the wind. Most rotted away. But some were buried fast enough to survive as fossils. Today those stone plants let scientists read Earth's history like a giant diary written in rock. A single fossil leaf can reveal what a forest looked like millions of years ago.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
The word "fossil" comes from a Latin word meaning "dug up." Every plant fossil was once a living organism that got buried before it could decay.
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PALEOBOTANY
🔬 Paleobotany = study of ancient plants
📖 Fossils are nature's history books
📖 Fossils are nature's history books
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⏳ Some plant fossils are 400+ million years old
🌍 They span almost all of land plant history
🌍 They span almost all of land plant history