Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

The Seward neighborhood bur oak, determined to be more than 300 years old, was declared dead and cut down in 2010.

Across the ages, countless civilisations, species and ecosystems have come and gone. Yet, there are still a few extraordinary ...

Trees are extremely important to the environment, but developers in West Meade are cutting them down to build new homes.

Through DNA two Germans discovered they're related through 3,000-yr-old cavemen. PASSAU, Germany, July 16, 2008 — -- Two Germans share the longest proven family tree in the world. The men ...

In the heart of County Kerry lies a land of contrasts, where rare ferns and moss blanket lush valleys of ancient forests, ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Visit this area of the White Mountains in California's Sierra Nevada region, where you can hike and see trees that predate ...