Found in France, the site featured more than 100 graves filled with ancient metal artifacts—including bracelets, brooches and ...

Wollemi pines ( Wollemia nobilis) are part of the Araucariaceae family, which includes monkey puzzle trees. They are ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

An ancient bristlecone pine hidden in California’s White Mountains may be the oldest living tree on Earth—and its story ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, ...

Until Tuesday, the tree's tumble hadn't been shown publicly, but discovery of the fallen tree reverberated across the United ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Imagine standing in the silent presence of a living being that has witnessed the rise and fall of empires, the birth of ...

Tree ring widths, which reflect the dry or wet conditions affecting tree growth annually, provide valuable proxy climate data from before historical recordkeeping began. Rui Guo and colleagues ...

A majestic yew tree believed to be the better part of a thousand years old rises from a churchyard, casting its long shadow over worn and tumbled graves. The gnarled and hollow ancient yew in ...