The Most Extensive Devonian Fossil Forest with Small Lycopsid Trees Bearing the Earliest Stigmarian Roots (Current Biology)

Wang et al. report the largest Devonian forest (also the oldest forest of Asia) with the earliest rooting system characterizing giant lycopsid trees distributed worldwide in the Carboniferous. It indicates that the earliest forests can be abundant, and have more impact on the rapid drop of atmospheric CO2 and on the stabilization of coastal lines.