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Gilboa Fossil Forest. Coordinates: 42°23′48.98″N 74°27′7.84″W. Gilboa tree fossil ( Wattieza) 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.
Coordinates: 16°12′S. Panorama of the rainforest, 2013. The Daintree Rainforest, also known as the Daintree, is a region on the northeastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about 105 km (65 mi), by road, north of the city of Cairns. Whilst the terms "Daintree Rainforest" and "the Daintree" are not officially defined, it is generally accepted ...
Pando aspen grove at Fishlake National Forest. Pando ( Latin for "I spread"), [1] the world's largest tree, is a quaking aspen tree ( Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism, Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear as individual trees, but are connected by a ...
March 7, 2024 at 9:15 AM. Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break ...
Methuselah is a 4,855-year-old [1] Great Basin bristlecone pine ( Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. [2] [3] It is recognized as the non- clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. [4] The tree's name refers to the biblical patriarch Methuselah, who is said to have ...
Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia. First growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914. An old-growth forest [a] is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological ...
Reference no. 1572. Region. Western Asia. Göbekli Tepe ( Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] 'Potbelly Hill'; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xirabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, [5] during the Pre-Pottery ...
Pinus longaeva (commonly referred to as the Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, or western bristlecone pine) [2] is a long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the higher mountains of California, Nevada, and Utah. [3] Methuselah is a bristlecone pine that is 4,855 years old and has been credited as the ...