Giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
These caves were unexplored for thousands of years, protected by swirling mists and terrifying tales.
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🧬 Discovery beneath Antarctic ice reveals an ancient, vanished world 🌲
Beneath the extreme cold of Antarctica, an unexpected treasure has emerged from the depths. A fragment of amber, a remnant of ...
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Huge ancient forest world discovered 630ft down sinkhole in China
The depression, which forms part of the UNESCO site, was proclaimed by Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of ...
More evidence that Europe’s ancient landscapes were open woodlands: Oak, hazel and yew were abundant
In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe’s ...
Indigenous mounds rediscovered at Forest Home Cemetery unearth Milwaukee's ancient history
Experts believed there was only one surviving ancient Indigenous mound in Milwaukee. Now, two rediscovered mounds bring that ...
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China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops and hear is the echoes of cicadas and birds bouncing off the ...
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See the Enchanting, Ancient Forest in the Middle of a Desert
The current 346 square miles of Petrified Forest open a window on an environment more than 200 million years old, one radically different from today's grassland. Where you now see ravens soaring ...