Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry
Forests of giant, scaly-stemmed club mosses once rose from ancient swamps in Atlantic Canada. But fossils found in a New Brunswick quarry show some trees that grew among them were even stranger — more like the truffula trees in Dr. Seuss books than any tree that exists today.
![Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7102940.1706887669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/fossil-tree.jpg)
![A reconstruction shows what the fossil tree, Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, would have looked like. An illustration of a tree with a spindly trunk and a bush of leaves at the top.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7102940.1706887669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/fossil-tree.jpg)
Forests of giant, scaly-stemmed club mosses once rose from ancient swamps in Atlantic Canada. But fossils found in a New Brunswick quarry show some trees that grew among them were even stranger — more like the truffula trees in Dr. Seuss books than any tree that exists today.