🌲 #Climatechange in the Quarternary period (the most recent 2.6 million years of the #Earth’s #geological history) wiped out laurel #forests that thrived in vast areas throughout the world 20 million years ago. Laurel forests are now only present in several places. The laurel forests of the Canary Islands, pictured here, house living #fossil #plants from the Tertiary period (65 to 2.6 million years ago). #PhotoOfTheDay #science #nature #trees #extinction #extinct #species #life 📷 Shutterstock