The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Twenty years ago, an off-duty officer from the New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service stumbled upon a grove of trees that were thought to be extinct in Wollemi National Park ...

Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small dinosaur garden at home using plants that many dinosaurs would recognise. We know what plants were around at the time of ...

"The tree that survived Hiroshima," "prehistoric tree," "living fossil"... Ginkgo biloba has been given many labels, not always accurate, which overshadow one of its greatest peculiarities: its ...

We do have fossils of other extinct flowering plants, the oldest buried in 130-million-year-old sediments. These fossils give us our only tangible hints of what early flowers looked like ...

The Wollemi pine is one of the trees that botanists are raving about. In fact, the “dinosaur” oft the plant world should have been extinct a long time ago. Instead, the prehistoric plant has ...