Did you know that scientists have discovered ancient forests, which are as old as 37.1 billion years

Museums across the country must have some fossils of creatures, such as dinosaur fossils or fossils of other plants. In fact, in addition to museums, there are also many natural fossils in nature. For example, in China, there are many ancient plant fossils in the Junggar Basin.

After the identification of scientists, it was found that the fossils of these plants all came from the same forest, and the plants were previously buried in the ground. But because of the exploitation of the land by humans, these fossils are gradually exposed.

So the question is, how exactly do scientists know that these fossils come from the same forest? According to relevant personnel, it is possible to distinguish whether these plant fossils come from the same forest or not by looking at the stratification of these fossils.

Vegetation stratification, to see whether the top height of the vegetation has reached 4 meters, to see if the middle layer has reached 1 meter, and finally to see whether there are low plants at the bottom of the vegetation. The so-called stratification of vegetation is whether the top layer of the vegetation has a crown with a height of more than 4 meters. Based on these conditions, it can be determined whether the vegetation fossils are in the same forest or not.

Because our country is very large, it is very difficult to find the most ancient forest, because no one knows where it is, there are ancient forests underground, in the past, our country is vast, and it is extremely difficult to find the oldest forests, after all, no one knows that there are ancient forests under that land. Five years ago, researchers would often find plant fossils in the Tacheng area. Some plant fossils can be up to 70 centimeters in diameter, and based on these fossils, researchers have theorized that there may be ancient forests underground.

In order to prove this conjecture, the researchers led the team to investigate the stratum where the plant fossils are located, and found that under the stratum where the Jurumute flora is located, there is the oldest forest known to us in China, and the time of formation of this forest is about 300 million years ago.

300 million years ago, this time was the best period for the development of plants on the earth, and at that time the earth was covered by a large area of vegetation, through researchers found that there are more than 700 kinds of plant fossils that have appeared on the earth, from tall vegetation to short vegetation covered, and there are ferns. The oldest forest found in our country is at the height of its plantation.

The study of this piece of vegetation fossils can learn more about some ancient data, of course, this is of great significance for our country, and even for the whole world to study ancient plants.

I don't know, this thing must be real, and scientists have found a certain basis for them to dare to say this.