Earth's Earliest Trees in Upstate New York

In this video I take you along on a trip with me to visit some of Earth's earliest trees in upstate New York! I went to Gilboa, NY located in the Catskill Mountains to take a look at some fossils of our planet's earliest trees. I teach a little geologic background first about why the Catskills aren't always considered 'real mountains' and other discoveries about these oldest trees in the last several years.

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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Catskill Mountains Background
3:53 At Gilboa Fossils
4:59 Gilboa Dam History
5:55 Finally, the fossils!
6:50 Some really cool historical photos
7:40 Eospermatopteris... Say that 5 times fast
8:48 They put the CARBON in Carboniferous
9:37 This is so cool
9:59 Some shell fossils!
10:22 I made a friend
10:52 Roadside fossils stop
11:13 NYS FIRST Woman State Palentologist
11:43 Family Reunion
13:12 Wait wait wait, another discovery?
16:47 Why should we care?
17:46 Modern day trees comparison
18:23 Ginkgo Biloba - A Living Fossil
19:31 Now you know more than you did 20 minutes ago


If you'd like to learn more about the Gilboa Fossils or the things I mentioned in this video, take a look at the following resources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.nature.com/articles/483041a
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...

Image Credits:
'Tree Stump Fossils in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycwate...
'Riverside Quarry' NYC Water, Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycwate...
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycwate...
Winnifred Goldring Portraits, Museum of the Earth: https://www.museumoftheearth.org/dari...
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' (2), NYC Water, Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycwate...