Prehistoric trees, artwork

Credit: WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Prehistoric trees. Computer artwork of a group of Archaeopteris sp. trees in a valley. 385 million years ago, near the end of the Devonian period, the first trees began to populate the Earth. Considered the first modern trees, Archaeopteris were a part of the Earth's primitive forests for the next 25 million years.

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