For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an existential question: Who came first? The giant trees, swollen of trunk and stubby of canopy, are unmistakable. Baobabs can live for more than 1,000 years, acting as the keystone species in dry forest environments in Madagascar, a […]
[Source] Local and foreign tourists are reportedly flocking to a rural Japanese village to see a cedar tree that looks like Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film “My Neighbor Totoro.” Key points: The “Kosugi no Osugi” cedar tree, located in the town of Sakegawa in Yamagata Prefecture, is over 1,000 years old. The tree first […]
A man claiming to be a prospector was charged after he was accused of digging a “staggering” tunnel on a 1,000-year-old historical site, Utah officials say. A ‘”concerned citizen” alerted the Utah Trust Lands Administration about “vandalism and potential damage near Fort Pearce in Washington County” on Nov. 7, the administration said in a Jan. […]
ST, GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said Washington County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Darrell Cashin. In November 2023, a concerned citizen called the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reporting potential vandalism and property destruction at an archaeological site near Fort Pearce in Washington County, Utah. When officials arrived, they said they […]