The Old Tjikko, the world's oldest tree, has been around for 9,550 years, surviving even during the last Ice Age. The Great ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

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.

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has fallen in the forest believed ... it snapped the trunk of a massive tree estimated to be around 3,000 years old. This dates the "Yayoi ...

How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent, buckets of conservation-grade resin and a lot of patience. Giant sequoias are among the largest organisms in the world. It took 12 ...

For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above ...