But over the last several months, those uplifting photo captions have been slowly replaced with eulogies for the tree and reflections on its life.“I visited the Tree of Life today for the first ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...

Beach visitors pose with the “Tree of Life” on Kalaloch Beach in Olympic National Park before the tree sank during storms in early 2025. Mathew Nichols Photography Courtesy A tree that seems ...

multicellular animals and humanlike intelligence – all share the same pattern. They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life. However, as the evolutionary biologist and ...

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