Forest in fast run

Forest has a long story. The concept of large plants extends back to a time when people, deer and squirrels, not even from beech or fir green were there.

Text: Peter Laufmann

It was a sunny day, then 390 million years ago. The area we know today as a Bergisches Land had no mountains. Rather, it was in a tropical shelf in the southern hemisphere of the earth. Warm water, coral reefs … there were no fish yet, but living things that looked like a bathing sponge and stinghes that lived and died in the flat water for many millions.

Overall, a world that would seem very strange to us today. But something grew on small islands in the middle of this tropical paradise that was very similar to our concept of forest: groups of plants stood together, stretched together

Forest in fast run

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