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Scientists Discovered the World's Oldest Forest Hiding in England
In 2009, paleobotanists found the starting point of this wood revolution in an abandoned quarry in Cairo, New York known as the Gilboa fossil forest. That starting point? The fossilized remains of ...
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The world's oldest forest - dating back 385 million years - is in the U.S.
In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten ... in this area—an ancient forest that predates the famous Gilboa fossil forest by two million years. The Cairo site, as it's ...