Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they ...

An ancient forest in Tasmania was the location of an extensive dig conducted by a recent PhD graduate, who unlocked new plant species and more insights on Earth's climate and continental shifts.

It may not be obvious today, but there’s an ancient forest hidden beneath the farmland of southern China’s Pearl River Delta. Spread across 2,000 square kilometers are thick layers of ...

A 10,000-Year-Old Forest Has Been Discovered, And It’s Under Water Ancient oak trees found on the bottom of the North Sea represent a prehistoric woodland that likely spanned thousands of acres ...

The Gilboa site was first called the “world’s oldest forest” in the 1920s, thanks to the New York State Museum’s Winifred Goldring. However, the Cairo site, at 387 million years old, is ...

An ancient forest has been found “entombed” off the coast Alabama, prompting NOAA to host a study of the site’s potential to hold new compounds for medicine and biotechnology research.

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University uncovered the ancient ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits ...

Scientists in northwest Wyoming found remnants of an ancient forest, frozen in ice on a barren tundra in northwest Wyoming. Uncovering the rest of the story is a race against time. The ghostly ...

Life and Death in an Ancient Polish Forest. A European court stopped logging in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. But many still fear for its future. Share full article. Written by Marc Santora.

Scientists have found an ancient forest hidden within a giant sinkhole in the Guangxi region of China, which could be home to previously unknown species. It's all vaguely reminiscent of the Hollow ...