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Petrified tree’s root system found on Lesvos

Petrified tree’s root system found on Lesvos

A team of geologists and excavation and conservation technicians have dug up the extensive root system of a petrified tree on Lesvos, as part of the largest ongoing rescue excavation organized by the Aegean island’s Natural History Museum of the Petrified Forest along the new Kalloni-Sigri road. [Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest]

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