The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

The cleaning project quickly morphed into an archaeological survey after the team found a row of distinctive bricks.

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Glasgow historians say they are "optimistic" that an ancient sycamore with links to Mary, Queen of Scots can be saved after it was badly damaged in Storm Éowyn. The Darnley Sycamore in the south of ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

During an ancient warm period ... whitebark pine trees involved cutting samples from 30 “well-preserved large trees” that were of “extraordinary quality” dated to around 5,500 years ...