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A team of researchers found a 350-million-year-old fossilized tree species that looks like something out of Dr. Seuss.

Research describing the ancient vegetation from leaf to trunk ispublishedtoday in Current Biology.

An illustration of the specimen (with simplified leaves), human silhouettes for scale.

An illustration of the specimen (with simplified leaves), human silhouettes for scale.Illustration: Tim Stonesifer

Startling to say the least.

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A fossil of the 350-million-year-old tree.

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