Researchers have discovered an ancient forest inside a massive 192 metre-deep sinkhole in China. The secret range inside reportedly contains trees as tall as 40 metres and could may well include species that have not been studied before.
Researchers have discovered an ancient forest inside a massive 192 metre-deep sinkhole in China.
Cave explorers came across the phenomenon near Ping’e village in Leye County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region earlier this month. Chen Lixin, who led the cave expedition team, told Xinhua that the dense undergrowth on its floor was as high as a person’s shoulders and that some of the ancient trees at the bottom were 120ft tall.
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