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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 ...
C. bicephalum (Leclercq & Andrews) C. forbesii (Schopf) Calamophyton is an extinct genus of tree, or "tree-sized plant", [1] that was extant in the Middle Devonian period. As of 2024, a well-preserved fossilized forest of Calamophyton trees discovered in Somerset, England, represents the earliest-known forest. [2]
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. The fossils, some of the only ...
Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...
Pando, a forest in Utah, started with a single quaking aspen tree that spread into colony of over 40,000 genetically identically stems that share the same roots. It now covers 106 acres and weighs ...
This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least 10 acres (4.0 hectares) of old growth. Ecoregion information from "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World". (NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world. See old-growth forest for more information.)
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 ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh ( / ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3] ), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur ( c. 2100 BC ). [1]