The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new species, Zosterophyllum baoyangense, from the Lower Devonian of Guizhou Province, reveals divergent life-history strategies in early land plants. This ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Plants require little to no pruning to maintain their attractive shape. These bushy magnolia hybrids are covered in dark evergreen foliage and produce a profusion of lightly fragrant flowers in spring ...