I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

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 ...

From dust-like orchid seeds to the massive double coconuts, the variation in seed size is one of nature's most striking ...

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When acorns fall from the oak tree in autumn, a jay will hide up to ... in new window ] The first person to notice this was English scientist Robert Hooke, who wondered why the colour of a peacock ...

Red oak trees have smoother bark and leaves with pointy edges. You've probably heard that deer prefer white oak acorns, and it's because they have lower tannin levels and therefore taste better to ...

Acorn TV continues to stream some of the best ... retired Australian detective Jack Darby (Bryan Brown) and widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope (Greta Scacchi) as they work together to solve ...

to larger trees. Oaks were valued for their wood and acorns, which would ripen in the autumn. Tannin was also extracted from the acorn cups of the Valonian oak. This substance was a vital component ...

‘Twas the week after Christmas and all through the County treecycling was popular; some got back a mulch bounty. Cut trees were placed in curbside carts with great care, in hopes the re­cycling truck ...