Ancient trees are fascinating, but the answer to the question in the title isn't as cut and dried as it might first seem.

Deep in America's mountains lies a bristlecone pine, the world's oldest tree, predating the Pyramids and Stonehenge. For over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 450-year-old oak tree, considered more ecologically significant than the Sycamore Gap tree, that was felled by the owners of a ...

In the temperate rainforests of Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, deep in the ground, is an ancient conifer called ‘Gran ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Trees older than empires are not as rare as you might think ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Paleontologists are getting a glimpse at ...

Whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound is a perennial subject of debate, but in one north London borough, it's certainly made a lot of noise. The felling of a 500-year-old oak tree earlier ...

Guy Joseph Guidry fondly remembers the moment he first encountered a bonsai tree, three decades ago. Guidry spotted a cluster of the miniature trees in his neighbor's backyard in New Orleans. They ...