Fossilized trees discovered by chance in southwest England belong to Earth's earliest-known forest, new research has found. The 390 million-year-old fossils supplant the Gilboa fossil forest in ...

in this area—an ancient forest that predates the famous Gilboa fossil forest by two million years. The Cairo site, as it's known, has been carefully guarded by researchers from Binghamton ...

In 2012, they described what they called "footprint evidence" of the Gilboa Fossil Forest, known for many years to be Earth’s oldest forest – until now. The team’s remarkable discovery in Cairo, a ...

The research team has now unearthed and investigated an entire fossil forest dating back 385 million years. The Gilboa fossil forest, in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, is generally ...

At a fossil site in Cairo ... years older than what was previously believed to be the world's oldest forest, in Gilboa, New York, less than 30 miles away. The research team, which published ...

These fossilized trees are roughly four million years older than the previous record holder–the Gilboa fossil forest in New York. The findings are detailed in a study published February 23 in ...

The discovery of a 385-million-year-old forest in Cairo ... Some of these fossil casts (the remainders of the Gilboa fossil forests) are now on display at the Gilboa Museum, roughly 40 minutes ...

This find was made in Cairo, about 40 miles south of Albany. Previously, scientists thought a fossilized forest in Gilboa, New York, was the earliest, but the one in Cairo is two or three million ...

Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone ... what was thought to be the world's oldest forest at Gilboa, also in New York State and around 40 km ...

The site, first discovered in 2009 by Charles Ver Straeten, curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, sits just east of the famous Gilboa fossil forest in Schoharie County ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have uncovered the world's oldest known fossilized forest along the southwestern coast of England. Dating back about 390 million years, this prehistoric ...