and Charleston’s famous Angel Oak are considered ancient oaks. Without doing a core sample and checking the rings, an exact age of the BK tree can’t be calculated. But Murphy suspects it is ...

The center of the tree was rotten, meaning he was unable to count all the rings. This oak tree has been growing out of the wall for over two centuries. Pic credit: History That placed the tree and ...

But the pine was used in planks, with more of its rings sheared off in the process of milling it. The oak sampling yielded more helpful information. The shipwreck timbers closely resembled tree ...

An ancient oak older than Seahenge has been found buried in a bog in the Fens. The 5,000-year-old specimen was unearthed ...

Tree rings are like libraries ... to latewood in conifers or ring-porous broad-leaved species like ash or oak.) can cause problems in ring detection. Dendrochronology research uses software ...

A contending oak tree in Rock Creek Park. Photograph by Jessica Ruf ... that it looks like an “ent,” or one of the tree-like creatures, from The Lord of the Rings. “Every time I come here, I go and ...

A routine tree-cutting amazing process takes an unexpected ... raising questions about why and how these objects ended up inside the sturdy oak. Was it intentional, or did nature slowly absorb ...

Long tree ring records, dating back centuries ... pines from Utah with the deciduous bald cypress in North Carolina and oak trees preserved in Missouri riverbeds. After taking a core sample ...

A restaurant chain has apologized after sparking outrage when it cut down an oak tree in London that was believed to be up to 500 years old. Described by British conservation charity the Woodland ...

The mighty oak tree was voted the United States' favorite tree in a National Arbor Day Foundation poll taken in 2001. Nearly five years later, a Congressional passage and a presidential signing of ...