A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping scientific understanding of past Arctic climates. Professor Peter Siver's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A legendary “walking” tree has captivated rainforest ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Palm phytoliths from the Giraffe Pipe locality, a 48 million-year old Eocene deposit situated in the Canadian subarctic. Top: Two isolated phytoliths. Bottom: Partial remains of a stegmata with five ...