Humans had a reputation for being on the younger side of history’s children, with much room for evolution and development. A beautiful section of the natural environment revealed itself to be the ...

(Rachel Sussman) In 2004, Rachel Sussman, a Brooklyn-based photographer who is a mere 37 years old, visited a Japanese cedar rumored to be 7,000 years old. Imbued with a sense of the fragility and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Pando, also known as "The Trembling Giant", is one of the planet's most incredible organisms. The word Pando means "I spread" in Latin, a fitting name for the massive one-tree aspen forest. This ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

The revived organisms resumed their biological activities as if they hadn't been without oxygen and light for thousands of years. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists have resurrected 7,000-year-old ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...