IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE

France Was Once Tropical Jungle

Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon.

Amber probably seeped out of trees like those growing in a tropical forest that covered France millions of years ago before Earth's continents drifted into their current positions.

The region corresponding to modern France could have been found in a geographically critical marshy zone belonging to Africa and a tropical zone 55 million years ago extending through North Africa to the Amazon.

That explains it: it's still a jungle out there.