Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the dinosaurs.

When you imagine prehistoric life, it’s likely that the first thing that comes to mind are dinosaurs: long-necked Apatosauruses, flying Pterosaurs, big toothy Tyrannosaurs. But what don’t get as much ...

A retired couple’s rare prehistoric tree has produced seeds for the first time ever, worth more than $6,716. Pamela and Alistair Thompson, both 75, bought a Wollemi pine for just $94 in 2010 as a ...

In 2023, a botanist discovered a tree in the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania that was previously thought to have been extinct, Mongabay reported. The tree — Millettia sacleuxii — is so rare that ...

Trees have always been part of our lives, providing us with oxygen, shade, food, and beauty. These trees, which stood tall and strong for centuries, are now only memories preserved in stories, records ...

Each year, species are going extinct at an accelerating rate that is alarming conservationists. This fear has increased ...

Firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from Australia's wildfires. The national parks director says firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the ...

The dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer native to China, known for its growth and large, conical shape, reaching heights of 70-100 feet. Its fern-like foliage emerges light green in spring, turns dark ...

Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...

6,000-year-old pottery reveals prehistoric humans cooked gourmet food with plants and fish, offering new insight into ancient ...

Heaps of trash left behind by prehistoric humans might have given rise to many of the tree islands found in the Florida Everglades, researchers find. Tree islands are patches of relatively high and ...

Shards from the Baltic region showed higher traces of freshwater fish, with some regions also including berries, sea beetroot, flowering rush, beets, and sea club-rush tubers. There were also traces ...