Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

Conservation groups in Guam are renewing their calls to action as the last mature specimen of a rare tree has died due to military construction on the island. A live-fire machine gun range was opened ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a very long time, with generations of them living and dying over the course of millennia. When they finally went extinct (likely) due to the meteor strike, they took many ...

Two rare, extinct-in-the-wild trees named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin are on their way to Philadelphia’s Historic District, where they will be planted at Carpenters’ Hall , home of the ...

Wild-born individuals of the species had not been found in more than 40 years, experts said. Photo by Justin Hu via Unsplash On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared ...

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — More Ozark Chinquapin seeds were planted at Lake Leatherwood City Park in Eureka Springs on Feb. 28, and many curious folks showed up to learn more and help support ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...