Geologists have found the remains of a huge underground rainforest hidden in a coal mine in Illinois. The fossil forest, buried by an earthquake 300 million years ago, contains giant versions of ...

In a picturesque corner of England, along dramatic sandstone cliffs, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized ...

Fossil forests and terrestrial palaeoecosystems provide essential insights into Earth's historical biological and ecological dynamics. As remnants of ancient flora, they help us trace back the ...

Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month — offering a glimpse of how plants grew ...

At first glance, fossilized leaves and wood might seem like fragments of a now-extinct world. But deep beneath the Earth lies a botanical archive—one that is spilling the truth about Earth’s history.

A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing ...

An ancient forest in Upstate New York has left behind big impressions, causing scientists to declare it the “world’s oldest forest.” According to Binghamton University, the forest is located in Cairo, ...

The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England. The oldest ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year-old clump of dead trees on the Jurassic Coast — a 95-mile-long (153 ...

STONE RIDGE, N.Y. — A lecture on Earth’s oldest fossil forests in the Catskill Mountains will be held Tuesday Nov. 12, according to an announcement. The lecture, set for 7 p.m. in Burroughs Hall 120 ...