A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

Stony Brook University’s Dr. Patricia Wright was introduced to an amazing parcel of land in southeastern Madagascar.

If you’re expecting a sleepy island town from Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, you need to think again. Tana (as the ...

In the garden of a hotel in northern Madagascar, a “large” creature with “slit-like” ear openings perched on a tree. Its ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in Tanzania. Scientists have named the canopy-piercing tree Tessmannia princeps ...

and Klingemann. Over 100 native plant species are expected. Come early for the best selection! NPSOT promotes the use of Texas native plants because of their great environmental benefit. Once ...

small leaf-shaped teeth into the greenery hanging from trees. This new species of dinosaur was found in 2012 by an international research team that included New Mexico Museum of Natural History ...

In some circumstances, scattered trees contribute to the viability of threatened species populations in agricultural landscapes by providing important nesting, roosting and foraging habitat and ...

SINGAPORE: Nearly 1,000 animals were born or hatched at four of Singapore's wildlife parks last year, providing an added boost for species under ... winged leafbirds, Madagascar teals and Meller ...

Indian biologist Zeeshan Mirza has identified more than 60 new-to-science species, including snakes ... where she studied the microbiomes of trees. View more of her reporting here.

A new study published today (March 26) in New Phytologist finds that certain tropical tree species not only survive lightning strikes but may actually gain an advantage from them. In fact, researchers ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old ... era and so it remains a mystery how she fits into the evolutionary tree of life. The small roadside quarry where Professor Gabbott found ...