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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...