Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 450-year-old oak tree, considered more ecologically significant than the Sycamore Gap tree, that was felled by the owners of a ...

In the temperate rainforests of Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, deep in the ground, is an ancient conifer called ‘Gran ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Trees older than empires are not as rare as you might think ...

Deep in the world's oldest forests, towering giants have been keeping detailed records for centuries. These ancient trees are far more than passive observers of time. Trees act as time capsules. The ...

Ancient trees are fascinating, but the answer to the question in the title isn't as cut and dried as it might first seem.

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Paleontologists are getting a glimpse at ...

Waipoua Forest is on New Zealand’s North Island in the Northland and Bay of Islands region, near Dargaville and about 1 hour and 45 minutes south of Whangārei. It holds the largest remaining native ...

An ancient oak tree felled beside a Toby Carvery restaurant in north London was healthy and showed little evidence it needed to be cut down, according to a report released by the Forestry Commission.

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum marks the 400th anniversary of the Yamaki Pine, an ancient tree that survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima... Washington honors an ancient tree that survived ...