The Hangman Sandstone Formation, along the north Devon and west Somerset coasts, where these fossils were found. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Cliffs of the Hangman Sandstone Formation, where many of these fossils dating back to the Devonian Period were found. 25,219 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

Scientists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's oldest fossil forest – dating back 390 million years – in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast. The fossilised ...

In the study, the researchers studied the rocks of the 'Hangman Sandstone Formation' - a 0.8-mile (1.4km) thick band of rock from the Devonian period, which stretches between 419 million and 358 ...

“The Hangman Sandstone Formation is illustrative of the revolutionary power of cladoxylopsid trees as biogeomorphic agents, forming densely spaced forests and shedding exceptionally abundant ...

Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England.

The fossil forest was found in the Hangman Sandstone Formation, an area that was connected to parts of Germany and Belgium. Although the trees resemble palm trees, they were a prototype of trees ...

At the time, the cliffs where the fossils were found, known as the Hangman Sandstone Formation, were connected to parts of what is now Germany and Belgium, rather than England. Similar fossils ...

The remains were discovered in the Hangman Sandstone Formation near Minehead, close to a Butlin's holiday camp (Image: Neil Davies/University of Cambridge/PA Wire ) ...

The remains of the forest were discovered in the Hangman Sandstone Formation near Minehead. Researchers say the fossilised trees would have looked similar to modern day palm trees, except with ...