A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied classification for two centuries, might just be an entirely novel ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Now his wife is raising their disabled son alone. Scientists discover dogs are entering a new phase of evolution In 2018, an ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

an astrophysicist introduced the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea that an advanced civilization may have existed on Earth before ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing taking over the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana? That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...