The Gilboa site was first called the “world’s oldest forest” in the 1920s, thanks to the New York State Museum’s Winifred Goldring. However, the Cairo site, at 387 million years old, is ...

The 390 million-year-old fossils supplant the Gilboa fossil forest in New York state, which dates back 386 million years, as the world's oldest known forest.

The Gilboa fossil forest, in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, is generally referred to as "the oldest fossil forest." Yet by scientific standards it has remained mythical.

A fossil forest found in an abandoned quarry gives clues to how it helped ... This recorded evidence meant that the site in Cairo is two million years older than the Gilboa fossil forest, ...

The forest dates back 385 million years, five million years earlier than the previous oldest in the area—the Gilboa Fossil Forest. Older fossilized forests have been found elsewhere.

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 ...

One of the truly greatest scientific discoveries in the history of our region was that of the Gilboa Forest. I should actually say Gilboa fossil forest; that forest lived during the Devonian time ...

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

The site, located in Cairo, New York, features root impressions that are 385 million years old, according to Binghamton University.The site sits just east of the famous Gilboa fossil forest in ...

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 ...

A fossil forest found in an abandoned quarry gives clues to how it helped ... This recorded evidence meant that the site in Cairo is two million years older than the Gilboa fossil forest, ...