A Rainforest in France?
A study suggests that France was once covered with tropical vegetation, reports LiveScience.
Writing in the Jan. 4 issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, researchers report “the discovery of a new organic compound in amber called “quesnoin,” whose precursor exists only in sap produced by a tree currently growing only in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.”
The researchers say the amber likely dripped from a similar tree that once covered France millions of years before the continents drifted into their current positions.
