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Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was a point during that millions of years where there were areas of thousands of feet deep layers of dead trees. It still boggles my mind.

[โ€“] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Would you be willing to find a good article explaining this further? This sounds really neat and I'd like to know how scientists figured this out :O