300 Million-Year-Old Fossilized Forest Discovered Near Inner Mongolia's Wuda Coal Mine

A University of Pennsylvania paleontologist and a team of Chinese researchers recently stumbled upon an amazing discovery in Northern China - A perfectly fossilized forest that dates all the way back to the Permian Period, when the Earth's plates were still moving towards each other to form the super continent, Pangea. During this time, North America and Europe were one continent, while China existed as two separate continents. Since they overlapped the equator, all enjoyed tropical weather.