Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.

The tree, which is over 4,800 years old, is found in a grove of other trees, but its exact location is kept a secret.

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains ...

A boomerang discovered decades ago in a cave in southern Poland has now been dated to between 39,000 and 42,000 years ago, making it the oldest known example of such a tool in the world — and it doesn ...

A 9-year-old from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has died after a tree fell on top of her during a thunderstorm on Monday, June 23, according to reports.

The 500-year-old sacred banyan tree stands tall in Bihar’s Aurangabad district. Patna: A giant banyan tree in Sahiari village, Aurangabad district, Bihar, stands as a silent witness to centuries of ...

The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya Shrine in Atami is no ordinary timber. Estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, it is one of Japan’s largest and oldest camphor trees.

We sampled 77 dominant trees that were 96–202 years old. Trees were climbed and core-sampled at multiple heights to quantify growth increments and heartwood development.

They made sure to get samples from old trees which predate the arrival of ash dieback and young trees that have sprouted since the epidemic began. In previous work they had discovered 10,000 existing ...