Rare fossilized cypress trees found in Hungary

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Hungarian scientists found rare Taxodium trees that instead of turning into stone as - they should be - were preserved.  They were found in an open-cast coal mine which allows the scientists to study the samples as if they were cross sections cut from a piece of living wood.