The UK's oldest tree is undergoing a 'sex change'. The Fortingall Yew, which is located in Perthshire, is thought to be between 3,000 and 9,000 years old, and is considered to be one of the oldest ...

It's never too late in life to make a change, even if you're reputed to be 5,000 years old. A yew tree of that age -- dubbed the "Fortingall Yew" and one of the oldest trees in Europe -- has been ...

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...

When USDA botanist Arthur Barclay collected a sample of bark from the Pacific yew tree in Washington State in 1962, he had no way of knowing that the sample would yield one of the most important ...

In this weekly series, readers tell us about their favourite trees. This week: a yew in Wales When Ieuan Morris, a film history lecturer, wandered through St Peter’s churchyard in Llanbedr-Ystrad-Yw, ...

The world's fifth-oldest yew tree has been discovered in Turkey's Black Sea region. Ercan Oktan, a forestry expert from Karadeniz Technical University, was able to determine the tree’s age as 4,112 ...

An endangered tree species of the Taxus Chinensis family, or Chinese yew, believed to be more than 1,300 years old, has been found during a census of ancient trees in central China's Hunan Province.

Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She has previously been named Science Journalist of The Year, was Highly Commended at the Society ...