""This was a pretty weird forest — not like any forest you would see today."

⁠⁠Researchers in England just discovered fossil evidence of the oldest forest in the world. Dated to about 390 million years, the prehistoric forest belonged to a geological period known as the Devonian period. This age marked a major change for life on Earth, in which the first seed-bearing plants appeared and the first four-legged amphibians made their way onto land. As such, this early forest looked a bit different from the ones we're familiar with. Known as Calamophyton, the fossilized trees were something like "prototypes" of modern trees. Researchers say they would have looked like palms, but with thin trunks and hollow centers.⁠"