Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life. Old growth trees continue to decline around the world (SN: 6/18/18). In Europe, the remaining patches of forest with ...

For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 ...

About a mile down the rocky Pine Creek Canyon Trail that begins near the end of the Red Rock Canyon scenic loop, there’s a tranquil spot where the leaves of gnarled apple trees rustle in the breeze, ...

The Wollemi pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age of dinosaurs. Hidden within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, ...

Hidden in the White Mountains of eastern California, the Methuselah Tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, is nearly 5,000 years old. This ancient tree, located in the Inyo National Forest's Ancient ...