Its spiky cones were a favourite snack for dinosaurs that roamed the Earth more than 200million years ago. Experts thought it had gone the way of the diplodocus, but now the ‘dinosaur’ tree is very ...

On a sunny afternoon six weeks ago, a group of botanists who had spent years scouring Far West Texas for a long-lost oak species finally found their bounty. And this Thursday, they announced it to the ...

One of the world’s rarest trees, dubbed the dinosaur tree, is bearing fruit for the first time in a garden in Worcestershire - Emma Trimble / SWNS One of the world’s rarest trees is bearing fruit for ...

In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" worldwide. Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) shared the same Earth as the ...

A California zoo has put the rarest insects on Earth — also known as “tree lobsters” — on exhibit to the public as part of a breeding program, officials said. Lord Howe Island stick insects — so named ...

The insects were once thought to be extinct before they were rediscovered on the Ball’s Pyramid volcano in 2001. Getty Images/iStockphoto A California zoo has put the rarest insects on Earth — also ...