In this case it is sixteen - eight million year old Swamp Cypress which have been preserved, encased in sand, in a Hungarian open faced cast mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany.
Scientists are racing to preserve the massive fossilized trunks before they disintegrate and it is hoped that testing will reveal climate conditions way before man set foot on the earth.
The Taxodium trees were living in an area once known as the Carpathian basin - an vast freshwater lake surrounded by swamps.
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