Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

The answer on how to finish Ancient Wood's 50,000 year old Kauri is "very carefully." Robert Teisberg's Ashland, WI woodshop recovers the primordial old growth trees from prehistoric peat bogs in New ...

An ancient Roman villa with a portico built from wood imported over 1,000 miles away has been discovered under the Italian city. Finding well-preserved ancient wood is rare as it degrades and is ...

Chemical analyses of wood that grew in an ancient arctic forest suggest that the air there once was about twice as humid as it is now. About 45 million years ago, forests of redwoods grew on what is ...

Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell ...

• Background The reconstruction of biological processes and human activities during the last glacial cycle relies mainly on data from biological remains. Highly abundant tissues, such as wood, are ...

(Columbia-AP) Sept. 5, 2004 - A group of Pee Dee entrepreneurs brag they have the oldest workable wood in the world. They hope the ancient cypress logs discovered in a sand mine near Johnsonville will ...

A long-lost wood fragment from the Great Pyramid of Giza has been discovered at a Scottish university – hidden in a misplaced cigar tin bearing an ancient Egyptian flag, officials said. The fragment ...

Over his 37 years as an excavator for utility service lines, Joel Kassen has come across many unique and “interesting items” buried beneath the surface. About 11 months ago, while digging a sewer line ...

Locals in Lewisham have raised £100,000 to buy an area of woodland that they hope to reopen as a public park. The ancient forest in Brockley was at risk of being sold to developers, but locals, with ...