The outdated practice was meant to prevent water, bacteria, termites or other bugs from getting into open tree cavities, but ...

An old oak tree rooted in controversy was assigned a historical landmark on Tuesday following a unanimous vote from the LA ...

“Old Glory,” a roughly 400-year-old Valley Oak tree in Stevenson Ranch, became a Los Angeles County Historic Landmark this ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...

The roughly 400-year-old tree was slated to be removed for a proposed housing development more than 20 years ago.

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have ...

It began its life about the time of the Mayflower’s journey to America.

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

A section of Audubon Park in Uptown New Orleans was closed off Monday as crews worked to inspect damage after a giant live ...

An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.

A new study shows that some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the ... is way more deep-rooted in the evolutionary tree than we might think,” said Eduardo Sampaio, a ...

Hundreds of homes are set to get free energy bills for five years under a scheme being rolled out by Octopus Energy and housebuilders. The 'zero bills' scheme sees houses get green technology ...