This Table Is Made From the Wood of 50,000-Year Old Trees
Roughly 50,000 years ago, a series of horrible storms wracked northern New Zealand, burying stands of ancient Kauri trees in peat and mud—where they waited, for many, many millennia, to be rediscovered. As conference tables, apparently. The rediscovery of the trees was a paleontological breakthrough, and it’s now helping climate scientists study how the Earth…
