Have you ever heard of a walking palm tree? It sounds like something out of a fairytale, but it's actually quite real! The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A legendary “walking” tree has captivated rainforest ...

For a long time, trees were believed to be stationary beings growing and surviving for years in the same place they were planted, unless someone deliberately uproots and shifts them elsewhere. But as ...

The stories we tell ourselves about the natural world can sometimes stretch far from the truth. For years, visitors to the rainforests of Central and South America have been told of a tree that slowly ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...