The story of Prometheus, the pine tree felled in 1964, marked a turning point in the conservation of ancient trees.

Humans may desire immortality, but it is trees that are garnering more success in this pursuit. One of them is now nearly five centuries old, having witnessed all the ups and downs of multiple ...

That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate graduate student named Donald R. Currey back in the summer of 1964, who ended ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have weathered through tons of challenges. Scientists have dated them, and locals ...

Why is it that the saying "respect your elders" always seems to apply strictly to humans? There's an infinite display of life forms that outlive humans not just by hundreds, but thousands of years!

One of Nebraska's oldest trees, a bur oak estimated to be more than 380 years old, has died. The tree, known as the "Old Wolf Oak," is located at Ponca State Park in northeastern Nebraska along the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Not many living organisms have been around long enough to ...

The world’s oldest cypress trees and the history of North Carolina’s first life-saving stations. UNC Wilmington students paddle deep into the Black River, where some of the world’s oldest living ...

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 ...

In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" worldwide. Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) shared the same Earth as the ...