There was something that was as high as a pole with eight metres before the trees overthrew it. The fossils of what long has ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...