Fossil wood serves as a vital archive for understanding Earth’s past terrestrial ecosystems. The structural features preserved in fossil wood, such as growth rings and cellular arrangements, offer ...

Researchers studying fossilized wood on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently discovered that an Early Miocene mangrove forest once covered the area. A volcanic flow likely buried and ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Parkin Arizona (Brian Engh, courtesy of the Smithsonian’s ...

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While fossil hunting in Georgia, we uncover dinosaur-aged lignitized wood sparkling with calcite crystals. This rare and ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last 5,500 years encased in alpine tundra. But as temperatures continue to warm, ...

Recent scientific discoveries suggest that Earth was once home to enormous trees, dwarfing today’s tallest redwoods. These ancient giants have left behind intriguing clues in the form of fossils and ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...

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