Among the striking discoveries made by Sillett’s team is that even the rate of growth of a big tree, not just its height or total volume, can increase during old age. An elderly monster like the ...

Newspapers trumpeted the discovery, calling the find—long known to Native Americans—“the Sylvan Mastodon” and “the Vegetable Monster ... trees we now know as giant sequoias can ...

Stunning surveillance video shows a Pennsylvania woman narrowly escaped death when a giant tree suddenly fell and absolutely destroyed her car — with her in it. The clip — from a surveillance ...