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Dung Fossilized in a Chinese Desert Reveals that It Was Home to a Forest and Rivers 4,000 Years Ago
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A team led by Kangkang Li reconstructed, in a study published in March 2026 in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the wood and marsh landscape that covered the Tarim basin four millennia ago. This corner of China receives only 20 millimetres of rain a year, barely two centimetres of water over a whole year, and there is nothing to suggest such a cover. The extirpated forest drawn by fossilized excrement of at least five animal species …
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