A retired couple’s rare prehistoric tree has produced seeds for the first time ever, worth more than $6,716. Pamela and Alistair Thompson, both 75, bought a Wollemi pine for just $94 in 2010 as a ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Wally the Wollemi pine, among one of Earth's rarest plants at one time thought extinct, has a new home at the University of Colorado Boulder's greenhouse on 30th Street. Photo by Rachel Sauer Back in ...

A retired couple’s rare prehistoric tree has produced seeds for the first time ever – worth more than £5,000. Pamela and Alistair Thompson, both 75, bought a Wollemi pine for just £70 in 2010 as a ...

When you imagine prehistoric life, it’s likely that the first thing that comes to mind are dinosaurs: long-necked Apatosauruses, flying Pterosaurs, big toothy Tyrannosaurs. But what don’t get as much ...

Heaps of trash left behind by prehistoric humans might have given rise to many of the tree islands found in the Florida Everglades, researchers find. Tree islands are patches of relatively high and ...

While sharks may have emerged before trees, it’s the latter that holds the title of the longest-living organisms. The oldest-known, still-living, individual tree is a 4,857-year-old Californian ...