(Reuters) - The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it ...

The flower of Adansonia digitata. Species of Adansonia can vary from 16 to 98 feet tall with relatively compact crowns. Its bottle-shaped trunk can have a diameter of 7 to 10 feet, or in the case of A ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...

Africa’s iconic baobab trees are dying, and scientists don’t know why. In a study intended to examine why the trees are so long-living, researchers made the unexpected finding that many of the oldest ...

Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees", because their branches look like roots reaching skywards. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are confined to Madagascar, one to northern ...

It is time now for our regular science news roundup with our friends at NPR's Short Wave podcast, Emily Kwong and Regina Barber. Hello, hello, hello to you both. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY ...

Around 1,500 years ago, shortly after the collapse of the Roman Empire, a baobab tree started growing in what is now Namibia. The San people would eventually name the tree Homasi, and others would ...