Fascinating story in the scientific press recently about a fossil forest found etched into an ancient cliff face in Somerset (Minehead) The fossil trees are thought to be around 400+ million years old (the Devonian period) and resemble palm trees. This makes sense as the UK (or at least some of it) at that point was positioned somewhere near the equator and basking in sub-tropical temperatures (oh we wish). It's amazing to ponder what journey our little island has been on, on a Human timescale it seems so solid and permanent, not so, it's wandered all over the planet in geological time.
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