In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age.

The Olive tree of Vouves in Crete is still going strong after thousands of years. A recent study has revealed its true age.

I n a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves. They are ragged with age, scarred from fire, with bark like the crust of a lava flow. But on the face of each enormous slab ...

June 30 (UPI) -- A Virginia man who lost his ring at a Christmas tree farm was reunited with the precious item 15 years later ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

The contrast between fast and slow growth creates a pattern of light and dark rings in the tree trunk. One pair of light and dark rings typically represents a year in a tree’s life.

In grade school, our teachers taught us that tree stumps weren’t just for playing jacks. Truth be told, I’d place earthworms I’d dug up on the stump in front of my childhood house. While ...

Current techniques for octopus aging include looking at growth increments in the hard structures of these animals, such as in their beaks or stylets, similar to looking at the rings of a tree trunk.

Miyake events are observed in tree rings around the world. As trees age, they develop concentric rings in their trunks. These rings can be used to determine their age, ...