Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jacqueline was walking to her southeast Melbourne home one day this week when she spotted an unusual pattern on the bark of a ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

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. "Most of us ...

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. “Most of us ...

A tree with a spiral trunk is growing in a city. - Wulingyun/Getty Images While it is one thing to see a bonsai or other trained tree growing in a spiral, it is far more surprising when you find a ...

Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural disasters, tree rings and dark lines inside trunks reveal secrets that are ...