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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a frigid day last month as Northwest Florida braced for the arrival of a crippling ice storm, Joe Sinkovich was in hot pursuit of sunken treasure. Sinkovich’s prize wasn’t gold or jewels, but a ...

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors. By Carl Zimmer Nearly half a million years ...

(CN) – Ancient Romans relied on long-distance timber trade for the construction of their architecturally stunning empire, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. One of the ...

Piece by piece, the curls of wood have fallen from the ancient log to the floor at David A. Boxley's feet. Little by little, his adze and knife have carved from the fragrant cedar the image of the ...