The researchers discovered a hidden world of life among the roots of Chile's ancient alerce trees. Here's why that's important.

Ancient alerce trees may shelter entire underground ecosystems, with vast fungal networks helping forests cycle nutrients and store carbon.

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

Records show that there is a living tree that began growing around 2830 BCE, placing its birth more than a century before construction began on the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was already ancient when ...

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Scientists dated a coolabah tree to 566 years old, uncovering centuries of drought and flood history in the Gwydir Wetlands.

Soils surrounding large, ancient alerce trees in Chile accumulate a disproportionately high diversity of fungi, which help store more carbon and make the entire forest healthier, suggesting that ...

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