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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 ...
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 ...
Prometheus (tree) Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non- clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine ( Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and ...
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 ...
1,487 m 3 (52,500 cu ft) Date seeded. 700 - 300 BC. General Sherman is a giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m (6,919 ft) above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth.
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 ...
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]
The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol ( Russian: Шигирский идол ), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [1] [2] It was carved during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. [3] The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old. [4]