Among the striking discoveries made by Sillett’s team is that even the rate of growth of a big tree, not just its height or total volume, can increase during old age. An elderly monster like the ...
How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent, buckets of conservation-grade resin and a lot of patience. Giant sequoias are among the largest organisms in the world. It took 12 ...
For this list, we’re celebrating 11 of our all-time favorite holiday monsters as featured in some of those bone-chilling Yuletide classics: killer toys, killer treats, killer trees, monsters ...
If you missed the annual Big Tree Hunt put on by the New Jersey Forest Service this spring, the mammoth specimen you thought might be a contender is worth keeping an eye on. The event ...
Therefore we can't discount the possibility that what people see and believe is the Loch Ness Monster might be a giant eel." DNA from humans, dogs, sheep, cattle, deer, badgers, rabbits ...
Philip Jacobs on the beach with the pliosaur snout. Image by Philip Jacobs I have been collecting the fossils of marine reptiles from the Kimmeridge clay for almost forty years. On the 5th April ...
Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the trees' native home. Reaching up to 90 metres in height, giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum ...
In this photograph, I’m abseiling down from the canopy of a giant Taiwania tree — we call this specific tree Great White. I climbed it in late June in a forest at an elevation of 1,900 metres ...