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” ...
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.
Worsening fire conditions are the biggest threat. As large trees develop over centuries, large fissures form in their trunks.
The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, towers over the crowns of the forest. The tree shapes the myths of the ...
Where would the Forest episode of Planet Earth 3 be without trees? They are the very fabric ... the life of this 200 year old giant, that had supported so much and could have lived another hundred ...