The monkey puzzle tree is an evergreen Medusa. It's such a monumental maze that, legend has it, someone once said that even a monkey could get lost climbing it. The name stuck. We'll leave it to ...

To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

It's easy to appreciate the beauty of a tree, but can be much harder to figure out what they are. Photo by Jeff Tome I once took a workshop that evaluated children’s knowledge of nature based on how ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Depending on your point of view, the national tree of Chile has a ...

This monkey family is a true unit!

Primates don’t monkey around when deciding where to spend the night, but primatologists have had a poor grasp on what drives certain monkeys toward specific trees. Now, two extensive studies of ...

SUNBURY — A pair of exotic monkeys dodged injury or death when one of two pine trees snapped by 70 mph wind fell within 10 feet of the animals’ enclosure on a farm near Sunbury on Sunday night. Jamie ...