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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of a 385-million-year-old forest in Cairo, New York, has stunned the world – but visitors to the region have been able to see rare and ancient fossil forests for more than a century.

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 ...

This recorded evidence meant that the site in Cairo is two million years older than the Gilboa fossil forest, just down the road. Since its discovery, paleobotanists from Binghamton University and ...

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 Gilboa fossil forest, in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York, features the remains of hundreds of large tree stumps, preserved in rocks. The stumps of the Gilboa tree were first ...