How huge forest of ‘art deco streetlamps’ sparked transformation of life on Earth – and carries a message for us today
If you were to step back in time some 365m years, you might see a landscape more akin to the wilder shores of science fiction than earthly reality. Imagine a forest made up only of one kind of tree. A thin, straight, leaf-covered trunk just a few metres tall, dividing at the very top into…