This provides a rare glimpse of a Miocene forest, in terms of its size and density.” The excavation during which the tree was found was completed in January, Zouros said.

IN THE MIOCENE AGE. Share full article. June 8, 1884. ... -As to the ani mal denizens of the Miocene forest, we must go to the marine and estuarine deposits of the Continent, ...

image: A well-preserved fossilized forest from the late Miocene epoch was found in Japan, near the Ota bridge on the Kiso river. (Photo: Toshihiro Yamada) view more . Credit: Toshihiro Yamada.

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Rather than being a large-bodied primate, though, Pliobates was relatively small and more gibbon-like in form, an adept climber with some ability to swing beneath the branches of the Miocene forest.

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Experts have made an “extraordinary” discovery of a tree which is still intact after being petrified by a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago in Lesbos, Greece.