Discover the awe-inspiring world of nature's giants in our latest video, ""11 Massive Trees Pushing the Boundaries of Growth."" 🌳 From California's monumental redwoods to the ancient cypress of Iran, ...

Many visitors make the trek up to the Jomon Sugi cedar tree, with its 16-meter circumference trunk and 22.2-meter height. The primeval forest is also home to over 1,900 varieties of plants, with over ...

The fringe tree gets its name from its clouds of fleecy white, softly fragrant flowers that hang from the branches in late spring and early summer. Other common names for it in the South are grancy ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided on July 27 it will register prehistoric Jomon Period archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region to the World Cultural Heritage list.

The Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14,500 B.C.-1,000 B.C.) was coined as a translation of “cord-marked,” first used by Edward Morse, who in 1877 conducted one of the earliest excavations of ...