This past November, an Alaskan trucker drove a long bed carrying an 80-foot Sitka spruce to the West Lawn of the White House, ...

About a year ago in this space, I wrote about a fascinating tree — the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum — that was unique in that it is a conifer that is deciduous rather than evergreen.

Dioecious, more rarely monoecious, evergreen shrubs or small to large trees of very varying individual form, with leaves spreading when young, but adult individuals often with predominantly acicular ...

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Rainforests did not yet exist when the Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops roamed the Earth. None of the iconic “terrible lizards” that we so often associate with steaming, dense jungles lived in any such ...