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Fifty-two thousand years is a long, long time for anything to survive–but that is how old scientists estimate a grove of huge bald cypress trees off the coast of Mobile, Alabama, to be. The ancient forest was discovered by scuba divers some years ago after being buried for thousands of years under ocean sediment. Located some 60 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the forest’s trees are so well-preserved that Ben Raines, executive director of the nonprofit Weeks Bay Foundation and one of the first divers to explore the site, tells Live Science that they still smell like fresh cypress sap.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:37:56 +0000

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