Team reveals oldest fossilized forest   PhysOrg - February 29, 2012
An international team, including a Cardiff University researcher, who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The research team has now unearthed and investigated an entire fossil forest dating back 385 million years.

Giant Vines & Towering Trees: Ancient Forest Unearthed   Live Science - February 29, 2012
One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now Gilboa, N.Y., was first unearthed in a quarry in the 1920s. But now, a new construction project has revealed for the first time the forest floor as it stood 380 million years ago in the Devonian period.

Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic Island   National Geographic - December 21, 2010

Pines, spruces buried in landslide millions of years ago, when area was warmer. An ancient mummified forest, complete with well-preserved logs, leaves, and seedpods, has been discovered deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists say. The dry, frigid site is now surrounded by glaciers and is completely treeless, except for a few bonsai-size dwarf trees.

Tree "Mummies" Found, Traced Back to Viking Era   National Geographic - October 28, 2009
"Mummified" trees that lived around Viking times have been discovered near a fjord in southwestern Norway, scientists say. Dated to the early 1200s, the 40 dead Scotch pines were found scattered among living trees in what was once a dense forest that supplied wood for medieval boats and churches. The trees appear to have died from natural causes after living out their several-hundred-year life spans. But somehow the dead trees "survived" - they apparently have never rotted. The mummified trees are different from petrified wood, a kind of fossil created when wood is replaced with minerals over thousands of years.