Around the world, people have found creative ways to make their own versions of the Christmas tree. If you love Christmas but want to see something different, here are some of the most unusual ...

The unusual feature that helps salamanders glide over the world's tallest trees - Blood flow in the toes of wandering ...

Ancient fossils reveal how woodless trees got so big: by continuously ripping apart their xylem and knitting it back together. Shawna was an editor at The Scientist from 2017 through 2022. She holds a ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

but perhaps there will never be a final answer." There's a strange forest in Poland that's filled with crooked trees - and no one can explain how it got that way Schoönberger ventured to the ...

Trees and shrubs change colors, too, taking on a special blue tinge after they are sampled and stained. That’s according to a new study in Frontiers in Plant Science, which found strange blue rings in ...