The Chinese Scholar Tree is found on upland rocky mountain slopes in moist, well-drained soil in its natural habitat. Optimal light conditions include full sun to partial shade. Though native to China ...

The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter snout, a shorter tail that is less than 25% of the total length, a heavier more cylindrical body, and fleshy feet. The ...

The sketchy information that is available results from several hundred trapped specimens. With few exceptions, the rock shrew requires a cool, moist site with a deep layer of moss-covered rocks or ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

Many bees are attracted to the flowers and the dried flowers persist on the tree for some time. The Chinese elm is an excellent tree that is surprisingly under-used. It possesses many traits that ...

Xilinshui village, in the northern Hebei province, has created one from trees in a bid to raise its profile. The design was made from 130,000 Chinese junipers, and can be scanned from above using ...

Hang on, we're zipping back through 800,000 generations of your line—a long way down your family tree. Back then your primogenitor was more like a monkey than a chimp, no offense. Ever seen a ...

Chinese-run criminal syndicates that smuggle ... grocery store for the menagerie that feasts on the ripe fruit—from tree shrews, giant squirrels, gibbons, and orangutans to nearly a thousand ...

Sixty-five million years ago, as the last of the non-avian dinosaurs were going extinct, our earliest recognized ancestors appeared in the fossil record. When, where, and why did they evolve?

Many new trees do just fine on their own. In fact, the movement they experience from normal wind and weather helps trees develop strong root systems and solid trunk girth. But new trees in open ...

Frogs are tailless, slimy-looking amphibians belonging to the order Anura. They mostly have bulgy eyes jutted out from the ...

Every tree tells a story, but some are beyond eloquent, holding memories, embodying belief, marking sorrow. We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests ...