Fossil trees on Peru's Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) The anatomy of plant fossils including an enormous tree that grew 10 million years ago in the now arid, high-elevation Central Andean Plateau calls current paleoclimate models into question, suggesting that the area was more humid than models predict.
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