A volcanic eruption 39 million years ago buried a forest in Peru – now the petrified trees are revealing South America's primeval history
- Written by: Deborah Woodcock, Research Scientist, Clark University
With the evidence uncovered by paleontologists, an artist sketched El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana as it might have looked long before humans.Mariah Slovacek/NPS-GIPIn the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America’s past millions of years ago.
When we first visited these petrified...