Aerial view of a fossil of Archaeopteris, a 385-million-year-old tree with surprisingly modern-looking roots. (Image credit: William Stein and Christopher Berry) (CN) – A research team of faculty from ...

An aerial view of a fossil of Archaeopteris, a 385-million-year-old tree with surprisingly modern-looking roots. William Stein and Christopher Berry At three trillion strong, Earth’s trees are ...

Chunks of 360-million-year-old fossil charcoal found in sediments in north-central Pennsylvania provide the earliest evidence yet that wildfires swept ancient landscapes. Road construction exposed a 1 ...

When you think of the worlds most magnificent forests, the Amazon, or perhaps California’s mighty redwoods. But the oldest forest on the planet is actually in a rather unassuming place: upstate New ...

video: A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has uncovered evidence that the transition toward forests as we know them today began earlier than ...

Scientists are pointing out the role played by the world’s oldest forests in shaping life on land and transforming Earth’s atmosphere. One such forest is the Cairo Fossil Forest in upstate New York, ...

The puzzle presented by the famous stumps of Gilboa, New York, finds a solution in the discovery of two fossil specimens that allow the entire structure of these early trees to be reconstructed. The ...

A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has uncovered evidence that the transition toward forests as we know them today began earlier than typically ...