During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains.

An ancient, fossilized forest, which thrived for centuries at high altitude, has been revealed beneath a melting ice patch.

Scientists at Montana State University (MSU) studied the remains of a mature whitebark pine forest that formed nearly 6,000 ...

Extremely rare footage shows the cougar, or mountain lion, attempting to gain an edge on several goats perched on a cliff.

Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

The comment period just opened for the proposal to keep grizzlies in the Northern Rockies classified as “threatened” — with ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

Speedy the bison died Thursday after spending 24 years as one of the best-known and beloved bison in the Greater Yellowstone ...

Thawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes that have influenced the area – and perhaps what might lie ahead.

For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above ...