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March 11, 2013 03:01 pm PDT
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Ancient forest off the coast of Alabama
Sixty feet under the Gulf of Mexico lie the remains of an 50,000-year-old forest. Diver and photographer Ben Raines took some amazing photos of the site and sent samples of the trees — which still look like trees — to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for radiocarbon dating. You can see sap in a cross-section [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5_FZ2oAnwO0/ancient-forest-off-the-coast-o.html
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