The world's oldest forest has been discovered just a short drive from , scientists have revealed.The Cairo site in Green County, around two hours north of the city by car, grew 385million years ago and 'would have even been seen by dinosaurs,' the researchers told the . Experts from SUNY Binghamton and the University of Cardiff in Wales have found extraordinarily early plant life in fossils. The forest would have stretched from New York to and the fossilized roots suggest the trees would have grown up to 65ft tall, with a trunk up to 5ft in diameter.
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