Mahmoud Shikiba, head of the wildlife and environment department in Golestan, revealed part of a fossil from a tree trunk about 170 million years old on the occasion of National Fossil Day, November 3. He said that this fossil was discovered in 1400 in one of the sections excavated on the Azadshahr-Shahrud road and it was moved to prevent destruction.

Mahmoud Shikiba, head of the wildlife and environment department in Golestan, revealed part of a fossil from a tree trunk about 170 million years old on the occasion of National Fossil Day, November 3. He said that this fossil was discovered in 1400 in one of the sections excavated on the Azadshahr-Shahrud road and it was moved to prevent destruction.