Details of a silicified fern fossil.
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Millions of years ago, widespread volcano eruptions in eastern Australia buried entire forests. Today, these time capsules reveal stunningly fossilised plants.
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Today, these plants are iconic to the Australian bush. But banksias and their many relatives originated in far-away shores 130 million years ago.
Encrusted silica deposits around the edge of Doublet Pool, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, US.
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When it comes to cleaning up land contaminated by toxic waste, we can follow nature’s example before humans populated the earth.