Recent scientific discoveries suggest that Earth was once home to enormous trees, dwarfing today’s tallest redwoods. These ancient giants have left behind intriguing clues in the form of fossils and ...
About 800 million years ago (mya), before the supercontinent Pangea formed, the Earth was more diverse than classical theory suggests. By reconstructing the tree of life from the evolutionary history ...
Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...