This discovery in Cairo, New York, is thought to be two or three million years older than what was previously the world's oldest forest at Gilboa ... map out where fossil trees were standing ...

tree by tree, in this area—an ancient forest that predates the famous Gilboa fossil forest by two million years. The Cairo site, as it's known, has been carefully guarded by researchers from ...

The first rooting system Stein and his team identified is what they believe belonged to a palm-tree like tree called Eospermatopteris. This plant was first discovered at the Gilboa Fossil Forest site ...

He said they had been able to drill into the fossil soil between the trees and ... late 19th century as researchers also uncovered Gilboa Trees, also known as Eospermatopteris, according to ...