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Channel: PBS Eons
Categories: Archeology / Paleontology   |   Biology   |   Environmental   |   Science  
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Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Colorado to China.

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