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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
imageWith the evidence uncovered by paleontologists, an artist sketched El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana as it might have looked long before humans.Mariah Slovacek/NPS-GIP

In the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America’s past millions of years ago.

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