NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — It’s time to find the biggest and the oldest trees in Nashville. A Music City tradition, the “Big ...

Carvings on Australia’s boab trees reveal a generation’s lost history. ... In 2008, Lewis was searching the Tanami Desert for what he hoped would be his biggest addition to the archive.

Let’s begin with a small attempt to understand one of Nature’s marvels. Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as ...

The boab tree, an icon of the Kimberley. In 1820, on first encountering a boab, explorer Phillip Parker King was struck by the “gouty habit of the stem, ... But, David explains, the “big hope” is that ...

After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.

Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as bottle tree or upside-down tree due to its freaky swollen trunk, is a venerable living thing that can, if it had a voice, narrate the passing of ...

Prizes are up for grabs for those who visit Maryland state forests and find the biggest tree. The Big-Tree Centennial Contest if offering a top prize of $500 for first place, as well as subsequent ...

An iconic 1000-year-old boab tree in the Kimberly region of Western Australia fell on Thursday after heavy rains filled up its hollow branches and caused it to become top heavy.

Although it's not the only boab to put down roots in the Botanic Garden, it's certainly the biggest .The boab was a special tree to the Gija people.

The earliest recordings of carvings on boab trees were made by the British artist and explorer, Thomas Baines, during the North Australian Expedition (1855–56) led by Augustus Gregory.

Despite this early interest, little more was documented about carved boab trees until Ian Crawford wrote The Art of the Wandjina in 1968. Crawford, a historian at the Western Australian Museum, was ...