Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then someone cut it down.

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny ...

Ancient alerce trees may shelter entire underground ecosystems, with vast fungal networks helping forests cycle nutrients and store carbon.

Some trees don’t just survive centuries, they survive civilizations,and they are rightfully called iconic and historic. These ancient beings have stood through geological periods, have witnessed ...

High in the arid mountain forests of eastern California there is a living tree that's older than the pyramids of Giza and the ancient city-state of Babylon — but its location is a secret. The ...

Records show that there is a living tree that began growing around 2830 BCE, placing its birth more than a century before construction began on the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was already ancient when ...

The world’s oldest cypress trees and the history of North Carolina’s first life-saving stations. UNC Wilmington students paddle deep into the Black River, where some of the world’s oldest living ...

Students explore the ancient cypress trees of North Carolina’s timeless Three Sisters Swamp. In southeastern North Carolina’s Three Sisters Swamp, UNC-Wilmington students and guides journey through ...

Soils surrounding large, ancient alerce trees in Chile accumulate a disproportionately high diversity of fungi, which help store more carbon and make the entire forest healthier, suggesting that ...