The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

The only certainty is that Currey did have permission to cut down what was discovered to be the oldest tree on record. Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old.

With climate change, wildfires, and human encroachment, our forests are in desperate need of guardians. What is being done to protect our woodlands?

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

Boyd, who is in upper management at a company that does plumbing and HVAC, was returning home after hunting around Great Bend ...

Born on 30 April 1946, Carl Gustaf is the current head of the House of Bernadotte. Carl did not succeed his father to the ...

This ancient tree provided the wood for the first ship to reach Laugh Tale, the Oro Jackson, but its significance may go far ...

The common juniper tree is the most widely distributed conifer species ... “From today, this record is also added to that of being the oldest shrub in the world,” said Carrer. The hardy nature of this ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery about octopuses: they have one of the oldest known sex chromosomes in the animal world ... on the evolutionary tree. This finding confirms that octopuses ...

The family tree of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is quite long, given he has been married five times. Here are the details.