During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

An ancient, fossilized forest, which thrived for centuries at high altitude, has been revealed beneath a melting ice patch.

Scientists at Montana State University (MSU) studied the remains of a mature whitebark pine forest that formed nearly 6,000 ...

Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains.

Extremely rare footage shows the cougar, or mountain lion, attempting to gain an edge on several goats perched on a cliff.

The comment period just opened for the proposal to keep grizzlies in the Northern Rockies classified as “threatened” — with ...

Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday denied petitions to remove Endangered Species Act protections from grizzly ...

Thawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes that have influenced the area – and perhaps what might lie ahead.

For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above ...