Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

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

Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a […] ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Deep within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, scientists uncovered a living fossil—a prehistoric tree once ...

A dawn redwood planted in 1954 stands about 86 feet tall and 3.9 feet in diameter at Michigan State University's Beal ...

A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...

The rare ghost orchid, unseen in the UK since 2009 and thought extinct, has been rediscovered in a British woodland by ...

Old trees and animals are more valuable than we thought, research finds. It’s not just about carbon capture to mitigate climate change. Sea sponges that live for millennia hold useful secrets we mustn ...