Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Researchers have discovered a new species of the elusive 'fairy lantern' genus Thismia in a hill dipterocarp forest in ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

The latest review article from the Interdisciplinary Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) in Portugal opens ...

“You could imagine some kind of cyclone knocking over trees where there were a bunch of iguanas and maybe their eggs, and ...

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Even container-grown specimens with fully intact root systems can benefit from spring planting because it provides more time for root growth. More roots helps trees better withstand the heat and ...

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Among the newly identified species is a pygmy pipehorse, a 4-centimeter (1.6-inch) master of camouflage found in Sodwana Bay, off the coast of South Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is the first ...