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 ...

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

The bones belonged to dozens of hunted species, the institute said, including woolly mammoths. The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers ...

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

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

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 ...