Discover the oldest trees in the world, their ages, locations, and unique survival traits. Explore ancient giants like Pando, ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

California’s giant redwood trees are some of the tallest and most impressive trees on the planet. Standing beneath them can ...

Mountain ash like cool, wet mountains ... If the genetic stories of Earth's ancient and giant trees are to be read in the future, we must take the time to record them and keep them safe.

However, archaeological excavations at Burzahom, an ancient site over 3,000 years old, have revealed charcoal remains of Chinar wood, suggesting that the tree has been indigenous to Kashmir for ...

Michigan’s largest giant sequoias are no match for those ancient trees reaching for the sky in ... meaning its needle-like leaves change color and drop each fall. Its natural range is in China ...

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has ... investigation to assess the tree's condition. No damage has been reported regarding the island's other giant cedars.

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ... that the ancient sloth's diet changed between wet and dry seasons. During the dry season, such sloths would have eaten vegetation and more scrub-like woody ...