Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images There’s a reason it’s called the Mighty Oak: Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds (yes, hundreds!) ...

Old oak in the Sababurg primeval forest: formerly used as a pasture tree for feeding livestock in the forest, today a tree that is a living habitat offering many species a chance of survival.

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. “Old Glory,” a roughly 400-year-old ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...