The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year-old clump of dead trees on the Jurassic Coast — a 95-mile-long (153 kilometers) stretch of coastline in southern England littered with fossils ...
Aerial view of a fossil of Archaeopteris, a 385-million-year-old tree with surprisingly modern-looking roots. (Image credit: William Stein and Christopher Berry) (CN) – A research team of faculty from ...
The researchers say the fossil forest is about four million years older than the previous record holder in New York State. It was found in the Hangman Sandstone Formation along the Devon and ...
The most extensive fossil forests of their kind in the world, they contain much information about the climate and geologic history of the Rocky Mountain region some 55 million years ago By Erling Dorf ...
Scientists have identified several hundred species of fossil plants and animals in Petrified Forest. The park consists of two main sections, and recent legislation has authorized doubling the land ...
A fossil representing the earliest known animal predator has been identified by UK scientists. The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a ...
WASHINGTON— More than 9,000 people today urged the U.S. Forest Service to halt plans to allow carbon waste from industrial sources like fossil fuel power plants to be dumped in national forests. In ...