But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...

Wing says that while the Sequoia may not be the oldest fossil in the museum, the rings offer a different way to think about time. He says that when you look at the 260 rings of the tree ...

Geologists and paleontologists sample ice, rock and fossils to reconstruct past climates ... The most familiar of these so-called biochronologies are tree rings, which form every year in response ...

If further fossil finds confirm that Danuvius and perhaps other ancient tree-dwelling apes stood upright, “it would show that our [human] lineage never did go through a hunched-over stage of ...