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The renowned Petrified Forest on Lesvos has become the focus of attention of major universities around the world. Groups of Geoscience students are visiting the Greek island to study the ancient forest which was formed from the fossilized remains of plants...

One of the most astonishing creations of nature, the Petrified Forest of Lesvos has been put on UNESCO’s world heritage list of cultural and natural landmarks. The list already included 18 Greek monuments, and in 1981 Greece co-signed UNESCO’s convention concerning the...

Due to impassioned conservation efforts at Lesvos Petrified Forest, a breathtaking rare orchid species named Ophrys lesbis has sprouted.

Roadworks for the construction of a new road from Kalloni to Sigri on the island of Lesvos, Greece, have yielded new traces of fossilized tree trunks and the remains of an antediluvian forest. The search was conducted by scientists at...

The first presentation of Lesvos Petrified Forest's candidacy to enter UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites was held by professor Nikos Zouros, director of the Lesvos Petrified Forest Museum. Zouros referred to the 17 Greek monuments that have been included...

Τhe Petrified Forest of Lesvos was declared top European Geopark for 2011-2014 after the second phase of the evaluation process conducted by the Global Geoparks Network (GGN) was concluded. The GGN decision was ratified by UNESCO during the 10th European...

Excavations for rainwater drainage pipes brought to light fourteen more petrified trees in the Petrified Forest on the island of Lesvos recently. "The trunks were in a very good state of preservation—they are impressive logs laid on successive strata, one...

In Laconia in southern Greece, lies a rich geological museum of a petrified forest that dates back to between two or three million years ago. In a large seaside area that extends from Agios Nikolaos, Agia Marina, Spitha, and Voies...

Greece's Museum of Natural History of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos announced recently a major discovery on the beautiful island of the eastern Aegean Sea. The Museum said that they discovered a massive and almost completely intact fossilized tree, which...

A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest recently discovered an 8-meter (26-foot) long tree trunk during their excavations on the island of Lemnos, located in the eastern Aegean. The ancient fossilized trunk was...

Two gigantic petrified trees, lying one on top of another, were discovered during recent salvage excavations conducted by the Petrified Forest Natural History Museum of Lesvos in cooperation with PPC Renewables. The 21- and 23-meter (75 foot) long trunks, from...

A conference on "Fossilised forests: evidence of the evolution of life on earth, examples from Lesvos and China" will take place on Sunday at the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest in Sigri. Professor Qun Yang, president of...

For the second consecutive year and within the framework of cooperation between the University of the Aegean and the University of Geosciences in Beijing, a special programme is held for undergraduate students of the School of Geology in Lesvos. Students,...

The Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest at Sigri will have its own pavilion at the World Geoparks Network at the International Tourist Exhibition ITB that will be held in Berlin from March 9-13. Visitors of the ITB, one of...

A petrified trunk of a conifer tree from China, which is estimated to date back to the Jurassic geological period (that extends from 159 to 200 million years ago), is permanently exhibited at the special exhibition section The Evolution...