Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

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Charles Ver Straeten, curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, made an unexpected discovery while surveying ...

The Penn State Alumni Association recently won the Centre County Historical Society’s President’s Award for the historical ...

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RFK Jr. is one of the most prominent faces in the Kennedy family tree. But how is he related to the other famous names?

This ancient tree provided the wood for the first ship to reach Laugh Tale, the Oro Jackson, but its significance may go far ...

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Born on 30 April 1946, Carl Gustaf is the current head of the House of Bernadotte. Carl did not succeed his father to the ...

With climate change, wildfires, and human encroachment, our forests are in desperate need of guardians. What is being done to protect our woodlands?