Sweet Home is built on a prehistoric petrified forest.

Coal formed when prehistoric forests and marshes were buried and compressed over hundreds of millions of years.

Legs and buttocks burning, we rode through a prehistoric forest in the midday sun with geckos scurrying to the side of the road from the bracken.

There were no prehistoric forests to store oil and coal for our use, but we have large rivers to provide hydroelectric power.

Visitors descend below street level into a prehistoric forest teeming with salmon, then watch a grandmother teaching her granddaughter in an Indian long house.

He looked incongruously at home, standing amid the fronds of the prehistoric forest in his dark conservative suit and cape, but of course the primeval jungle was illusory.

When the tide is out you can see there is evidence of a prehistoric forest.

Shortly thereafter, Stout drove over one thousand miles through central southern Chile, documenting the rare prehistoric forests there for inclusion in his Lost Worlds book.

Seconds later the spotlight disappears and life returns to normal in the prehistoric forest.

The subsoil layers under West Heath and Turves Green also contains a coal seam that would indicate that a prehistoric tropical forest once existed here.