There was something that was as high as a pole with eight metres before the trees overthrew it. The fossils of what long has ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

It has been declared extinct, but is considered a living fossil and is related to the California redwood and giant sequoia, diverging around 150 million years ago. The dawn redwood is resilient and ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...