About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

But in 1998, this ancient plant discovered in the fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China graced the cover of Science and made headlines worldwide. It was heralded as the earliest ...

Tea enthusiast and author Jeff Fuchs, featured in The Tea Explorer, travelled to ancient tea forests in China’s southern ... The leaves then go to a processing plant where they are steamed ...