The fossils consist mainly of ferns, prehistoric trees and early sea life.

Purbeckensis is fairly easily distinguished from other species of prehistoric tree, due to the timbers' characteristic "cross-field pitting".

Every November, the ginkgo, a strange, prehistoric tree, drops its reeking seeds.

Fossil resins include amber and are remains of the sap of prehistoric trees found in coal beds.

The garden contains about 500 types of plants, including rare species and prehistoric trees such as Gingko biloba.

And most recently, in Australia, an entire stand of prehistoric trees, long thought extinct, was found in a remote rain forest.

Kouwe explained what he and Kelly had witnessed up in the healing ward of the giant prehistoric tree.

Everything ties back to that prehistoric tree.

When we burn coal we are reusing that ancient sun-energy, because coal is made from prehistoric trees.

The strongest sensation was of having stepped over the border into another world, a nightmarish ecosystem of gigantic ferns, prehistoric trees, and lush alien greenery.