American chestnut trees, deemed functionally extinct decades ago, may already be mounting a quiet comeback in the northern ...

A retired couple's rare prehistoric tree has produced seeds for the first time ever - worth more than $6,000. Pamela and Alistair Thompson, both 75, bought a Wollemi pine for just $70 in 2010 as a ...

A retired couple’s rare prehistoric tree has produced seeds for the first time ever, worth more than $6,716. Pamela and Alistair Thompson, both 75, bought a Wollemi pine for just $94 in 2010 as a ...

When you imagine prehistoric life, it’s likely that the first thing that comes to mind are dinosaurs: long-necked Apatosauruses, flying Pterosaurs, big toothy Tyrannosaurs. But what don’t get as much ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a very long time, with generations of them living and dying over the course of millennia. When they finally went extinct (likely) due to the meteor strike, they took many ...

Firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from Australia's wildfires. The national parks director says firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Scientists say they have unearthed Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light on ancient reptiles that may have hunted prey by dropping on them from trees. The ...