Situated in the phantasmagorical landscape of the Italian Alps, this pine cone-shaped treehouse was designed to allow its occupants to lay out, gaze up at the enchanting night sky, and indulge in some ...

When researchers first described hyoliths roughly 175 years ago, flummoxed paleontologists bestowed them with the Latin moniker Incertae sedis—the binomial equivalent of “We don’t know,” writes ...

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...

Rare fossils of ancient ice-cream-cone-shaped creatures are helping scientists piece together how organisms evolved during a period called the Cambrian explosion, when organisms changed rapidly and ...