It's not what they intended to do or expected to find. They're not even all that interested in birds. When Andre Naranjo and his colleagues began work on a new study published in the Botanical Journal ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

An American professor has created a 'Tree of 40 Fruit' by grafting dozens of stone fruit varieties onto a single tree. This ...

Longtime Mendocino County outdoor educator Sue Coulter is founder of Our Healing Nature, a program instilling children with a love and respect for the natural world.

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed ...

Twin Cities residents are not lacking for reasons to stay indoors this January. A cold snap swept across Minnesota, bringing freezing winds and subzero temperatures, and the area is still facing a ...

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...

Nestled among central Florida’s surprising hills, Sebring offers a landscape that makes you forget you’re in famously flat ...

Tucked away in central Florida’s highlands, Sebring sits among rolling hills that make you forget you’re in the Sunshine ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet the largest share of ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...