Archaeopteris is one of Earth’s earliest trees, if not the earliest. Like all Devonian vegetation, it used to grow close to waters.

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Archaeopteris is one of Earth’s earliest trees, if not the earliest. Like all Devonian vegetation, it used to grow close to waters. Diffused in both Laurasia and Gondwana, it reproduced itself through spores.

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