Gum trees fire up history revision

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 06:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian bushfires appeared 50 million years earlier than previously thought and probably contributed to transforming the landscape from rainforest into the country’s dry eucalypt forests of today, according to the authors of a new study from The Australian National University.

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