In the depths of the wilderness amongst the Tanzanian mountains, researchers have made a fascinating new discovery. According to a study recently published in Phytotaxa, this remote terrain is home to ...

Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws ...

Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

On August 31, 1886, a huge earthquake delivered the final blow to Middleton Place. This 7.3-magnitude quake, the strongest ...

An ancient oak tree thought to be more than 400 years old has been cut down in what has been called a "depressing" and "devastating" incident in north London. The remains of the trunk, surrounded ...

Here's what ginkgo biloba is, what benefits are associated with it and why it's not recommended to be taken by everyone.

The tree is a Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), with a girth of 6.1 metres and it is officially verified on the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory. Mr Stephen told The Independent that ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. WORCESTERSHIRE has many ancient trees dotted around its landscape, some which began life not long after the Black Death. The Woodland Trust ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. WORCESTERSHIRE has many ancient trees dotted around its landscape, some which began life not long after the Black Death. The Woodland Trust has ...

The 'beautiful' python thought it had found an easy meal. Source: Rodney Fischer/Facebook A remote Aussie fisherman and snake handler has shared incredible images of a large Olive python after it ...

The ancient origins of cacao The cacao tree is believed to have been first domesticated by the Olmecs, one of the earliest civilizations in Mesoamerica, around 1500 BCE. Evidence suggests that cacao ...