The Taynish National Nature Reserve is located near the village of Tayvallich in Argyll and Bute, along Scotland's west coast ...

An archaeologist has supported claims that the Amazon rainforest is a man-made garden planted by a lost civilisation in ancient times. Ed Barnhart said archaeologists are constantly finding ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

Until our visit and the construction workers' find, no one had any idea that six meters under their feet were perfectly preserved relics of an ancient rainforest and exquisite fossilized pollen.

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems reveals that Australia's cool temperate rainforests are more disturbance-resilient than ...

So, off we went to this ancient rainforest. The Belum rainforest is carbon-dated to be 130 million years old, making it older than the Amazon in South America or the Congo in Africa. We were 21 ...