Fossilized trees dating back 386 million years have been discovered at an abandoned quarry in New York. Scientists believe they've found a forest so gigantic that it once stretched beyond Pennsylvania from the quarry in Cairo, New York -- nestled in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The finding could increase our understanding of the evolution of trees and how they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. "This is the oldest place where you can wander around and map out where fossil trees were standing back in the middle part of the Devonian era," paleobotanist Chris Berry, from Cardiff University, told BBC News. The point in time that the fossil trees date back to marks a transition between a planet with no forests and a planet that is largely covered in trees.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2019 23:11 UTC