One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now ...

Fossils of those first trees, cladoxylopsids, can still be seen in places such as Gilboa in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where stumps up to 2 meters in diameter beckon visitors to ...

News Release 29-Feb-2012 Oldest fossilized forest revealed Peer-Reviewed Publication Cardiff University image: Dr. Chris Berry studies the stump of a Gilboa tree. view more Credit: Cardiff University ...

Primordial trees that flourished on Earth over 300 million years ago had a far more intricate structure than modern day ones, scientists have found out. The Anatomy Of Ancient Trees Took Scientists By ...

The tree as a we now view it—primary trunk, large height, crown of leaves or fronds—didn't clearly exist until the late Devonian. But fossil trunks such as the ones at right (Eospermatopteris, named ...

I wonder if there is a Guinness Book of Records smallest museum. If so, then the Gilboa Museum would be a contender for that honor. It occupies a building that used to be town hall in Gilboa, before ...

One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now ...