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Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, United States, is a petrified forest and one of the oldest known forests. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County , New York, the region is home to tree trunks from the Devonian period.
As of the reporting date, it is the earliest forest yet discovered. [2] [7] [10] At an age of 390 million years, the forest pre-dates the previously oldest-known example—a root system probably belonging to Archaeopteris, discovered in 2009 near Cairo, New York [12] —by about four million years.
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non-clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Fossilized trees dating back 390 million years are world’s oldest Skip ...
Visitors can see the ancient logs discovered by geologists and hear the story behind them during a free event in Menasha June 25. Hidden forest estimated to be 13,500 years old discovered along ...
In April, geologists and a local landowner discovered two wood fragments likely part of a buried forest at least 11,000 years old. Buried forest in Manitowoc County was first uncovered in 1907.
Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. An old-growth forest [a] or primary forest is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological features. [1]