LARAMIE, Wyo., Aug. 13 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
For more than a decade, University of Wyoming botany Professor Ellen Currano has been
collecting fossilized remnants of trees and plants that thrived about 56 million years
ago in what is now Wyoming.
The work of Currano and a dozen UW undergraduate and graduate students in the Big
Horn and Hanna basins has helped paint a picture of a much different landscape than
exists today, showing that the forests of ancient Wyoming teemed with giant dawn redwood
trees overlooking sycamores, alders, palms and other subtropical and tropical plant
species.
Now, Currano's findings are part of a new scientific paper -- published today in the
journal Science -- that re...