Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...

Many American schoolchildren grow up learning that Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. But across the globe in Mongolia, just south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, a mountain holds a claim ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Quebec has long been known for its ancient rocks, but ...

Oldest boomerang ever found doesn’t come back — so what was it used for 42,000 years ago? Carved from a mammoth tusk with exceptional skill, the boomerang showcases the remarkable sophistication of ...

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.

Heartwood enrichment generally increases with tree height, but regenerating redwoods in marginal sites have consistently more heartwood extractives than do similarly sized trees in northern and ...