Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

There, it flies among the trees, eating mostly fruit from strangler figs. While considered territorial in its movement and monogamous in its breeding habits, the day-to-day life of helmeted hornbills ...

Newspapers have raised an outcry for the arrest of “the Phantom Strangler.” Patterns. Up to a point, there has been a pattern in the stranglings. Most of the victims were sexually molested.

“The Nazi salute shit was insane,” Wilson, 20, said. “Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That shit was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is ...

Actor Kevin Lasit aims to portray Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo with more humanity in an upcoming play. “A Nightmare with Casey Sherman” features a cast of Cape Cod actors and benefits the ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

But others may raise eyebrows, such a fig-only diet for Olympic athletes. In modern times, diet refers to food and drink. In ancient times, however, the idea of diet was more expansive.

A tangle of lianas, acuri palms and strangler figs pressed close along the riverbank. I stared into the forest, scanning for movement, for shadows, for a jaguar. But it was too soon. Patience in ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...