The current 346 square miles of Petrified Forest open a window on an environment ... over rivers teeming with armor-scaled fish and giant, spatula-headed amphibians. Nearby ran herds of some ...
YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has fallen in the forest believed to have inspired Studio Ghibli's "Princess Mononoke." However, this one was not Lady Eboshi's fault.
In a high-elevation forest on Jingmai Mountain, dawn broke over a green peak, bathing an ancient tea tree in warm light. A four-foot-wide trunk along with enormous branches, stretching up into a ...