The findings could help scientists better understand dangerous solar events from the past.

(CNN) — Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply. Now, a new discovery of uniquely 3D ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Not many living organisms have been around long enough to ...

Ready for a “root” awakening? Towering fossilized tree trunks entombed upright in layers of rock across the US are stirring ...

In Sonoma County, near a community once called Stumptown because of the sprawling graveyard of cleaved trees left in the wake of California’s early logging boom, one ancient redwood has repeatedly ...

A short Washington trail turns into a strange natural adventure where ancient lava left behind a perfectly preserved ...

The air bubbles from her scuba rig rise from a cloud of mud and dead plant matter stirred up from the bottom of the lake. A large stump looms in front of her, rising to the surface. Then there’s a ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once ...