Ferris Jabr: For Nautilus Magazine, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me: What are the oldest surviving ecosystems on Earth? Turns out some extant meadows, reefs, and rainforests have persisted for hundreds of thousands to *tens of millions* of years. What can they teach us? nautil.us/the-oldest-e...

For Nautilus Magazine, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me: What are the oldest surviving ecosystems on Earth? Turns out some extant meadows, reefs, and rainforests have persisted for hundreds of thousands to *tens of millions* of years. What can they teach us? nautil.us/the-oldest-e...

The Oldest Ecosystems on Earthnautil.us What they teach us about resilience.

This is a marvelous story. I appreciate the opening in the Hoh, one of my favorite places.

Thank you 🙏🏼 One of mine, too

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Makes me wonder about the longest-lived environments in the fossil record. How long did it take for that mud-mound reef to accumulate its stratigraphic thickness? For how many millions of years did stromatolites carpet a bay in the Proterozoic? How much time is in a layer of coal in deltaic sand?

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