Rare Fossilized Cypress Trees

Hungarian scientists have discovered a group of fossilized swamp trees or Taxodium trees preserved in original position in a open cast-lignite mine in the north-eastern village of Bukkabrany as if they were sections cut from a piece of living wood. The trunks of the trees preserved in remarkable condition, it did not turn into stone, standing at 4-6 metters tall and 1.5-3 meters in diameter just as they were in the late Miocene geological period 8 million years. ago when the Carpathian basin - present day Hungary - was a freshwater lake surrounded by swamps