It was during that process when palaeontologists discovered around 40 unique tree fossils, which thrust Gilboa onto the paleontological world stage. “Our ancestors all lost their homes in Gilboa ...

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 ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Fossils of those first trees, cladoxylopsids, can still be seen in places such as Gilboa in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where ...

along with the famous Gilboa irises. While I remember very few trees, there are now attractive woods, many of them with picnic areas. One memory seemed so surreal that I double-checked to make ...