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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
March 7, 2024 at 11:30 PM. Scientists have found what they believe to be the world's earliest known fossilised forest in cliffs on the coast of South West England. It was discovered in high ...
The Jenolan Caves ( Tharawal: Binoomea, Bindo, Binda [2]) are limestone caves located within the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Blue Mountains, in Jenolan, Oberon Council, New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The caves and 3,083-hectare (7,620-acre) reserve are situated approximately 175 ...