The study says a nearby cypress in the same river swamp is at least 2,088 years old. Scientists believe other, unsampled 2,000-plus-year-old trees exist along the 66-mile-long stream.

Recently discovered 2,624-year-old bald cypress tree looms beside Julie Moore, front, and Dr. David Stahle in Three Sisters Swamp on the Black River in southeastern North Carolina.

In 12 to 15 years, Bayou Fisher will start to look like a real forest, with oak, hickory, pecan, ash and maple trees. A small collection of young cypress trees sits on the land, too.

However, when they mark a young tree, tearing up the bark, the tree can die. That's what has happened to a small group of young bald cypress in one area of the swamp.

Beidler Forest in the Lowcountry is the largest uncut cypress-tupelo swamp in the world, with some trees that have been growing for more than a millennium, according to Audubon South Carolina. As ...

Jean Lafitte Swamp Tour is a great way to get out on the water looking for gators, birding, and other wildlife. Enjoy a ...

VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) - Ron Clark of Bicknell hopes to preserve the last large cypress tree in what was once the Little Cypress Swamp. In a southwest corner of Knox County, known to some as Hell's ...

The Great Cypress Swamp is home to one of the northernmost baldcypress stands in the nation, recognizable by the knobby “knees” poking out of the tannin-darkened swamp waters.

Among the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary's chirping, buzzing, crawling critters, I discovered my higher self. Distant thunder rolled through the cypress tree growth, and insects hummed their cadence ...

He kept looking down, writing something on his little notepad. Meanwhile, the rest of us watched, not a small falling limb, but the broken-off top of the cypress tree, which was about 50 feet high.

At Big Cypress, it’s not just the unique ecosystem that grabs attention; it’s the scale of the untouched wildness.