Big log earns Guinness World Record plaudit

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Rare find: Jatuporn Buruspat, environment ministry permanent secretary, donning a green shirt, observes the longest fossil log with officials, before receiving a certificate from a representative of Guinness World Records on Friday.
Rare find: Jatuporn Buruspat, atmosphere ministry permanent secretary, donning an eco-friendly shirt, observes the particular longest fossil log with officials, just before receiving a certificate from the representative of Guinness Globe Records on Fri.

The 70-metre petrified log in Tak on Friday earned a Guinness World Record for being the longest fossilised tree trunk on the planet.

The log was present in Doi Soi Malai National Park within Ban Tak region in 2003 in order to was 72. twenty two metres long, equal to the height of a 20-storey building, based on the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.

But later the excavation site was flooded, leading to damage to the tip and shortening the length to 69. 7 metres.

The ministry believed the scared wood to be from the Thong Bueng tree species (kempas) commonly found in rainforests, and about 120, 000 years old.